Do breast implants cause cancer?
Many would say yes. And logically, having a foriegn object implanted into your body can't be healthy.
Right? WRONG!
A large study of 24,000 women has added evidence that breast implants don't pose any added risks for ANY cancers and in fact, women with breast implants had a far lower cancer rate than women who did not have implants.
A few quick facts: Women with breast implants were 43% less likely to get breast cancer, had less than average rates of all other cancers, and less at risk for breast cancer than other cosmetic surgery patients. Scientists are unsure for the reason behind these findings, but add that women who have had breast augmentation are generally younger, thinner, and have children at a younger age. Another suggestion is that women with a family history of breast cancer tend to not augment their breasts.
The current findings are based on data for 24,558 women who underwent breast augmentation, mostly with silicone-gel implants, between 1974 and 1989. Their cancer incidence was compared with that of the general population, as well as a group of 15,893 women who underwent other cosmetic procedures during the same time period.
Women in both cosmetic-surgery groups had lower-than-average rates of both breast cancer and cancer in general, with implant recipients showing the lowest breast cancer rate.
In actuality, most studies done on this subject have all found no significant risk of breast cancer.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/06/21/implants.cancer.reut/index.html
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