No long-term cancer risk seen from breast implants

Article in ABC news about Breast Cancer and Breat Implants

Results of a study that followed women up to 30 years adds to evidence that silicone breast implants do not boost cancer risk.

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Good response, I read on a Breast Cancer Support group.

This so-called 'study' is more junk science, in my opinion.

Well, I downloaded the PDF of the original article and have read it. I can see no reason why you'd call it "junk science".

I will stipulate that the best, most powerful study would be a randomized controlled trial. That is never going to happen. Thus, we're left with looking at the health of those that receive breast implants. What this article did was compare this to the general public - and it was age matched. It was also comparing apples to apples since the larger control pool was what produced the women who received breast implants. Two great strengths of this paper - one was the large sample size of over 4,000 women. The other was impressive long term followup - something not possible in the US but readily accomplished in this Danish study. They also had a nice overview in their intro complete with many citations of peer reviewed journals showing similar findings.

Again, while this sort of study is not the optimal study, it is the best that we're able to ethically perform. Given a study this large and complete, with this negative finding, it is extraordinarily unlikely that there is a meaningful increase that will ever be detected.

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