Breast Cancer Deadlier in Women with Implants
"Breast cancer appears more deadly for women with cosmetic implants, perhaps because it's detected at a more advanced stage.
Point out that the authors urged caution in interpreting the results and called for further study, pointing to lack of adjustment for potential confounders in some of the studies included in the meta-analysis.
Breast cancer appears more deadly for women with cosmetic implants, perhaps because it's detected at a more advanced stage, a meta-analysis showed.
Breast cancer patients were a significant 38% more likely to die from their disease if they had implants than if they didn't, Eric Lavigne, PhD, of Laval University in Quebec, and colleagues reported online in BMJ.
And women with implants were 26% more likely to present with a nonlocalized stage of breast cancer than other women, although a nonsignificant trend at P=0.058.
"Better understanding of the detection of breast cancer and survival patterns following diagnosis of breast cancer among women with implants will aid in giving clear information on the consequences of breast augmentation surgery to these women and their physicians," Lavigne's group wrote.
"The fact that implants may interfere with the early detection of breast cancer is particularly relevant and carries with it important clinical and public health implications," they wrote."
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