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FDA Orders Recall Of Breast Implants After Links To Roughly 500 Cancer Cases, A Dozen Deaths |
2019-07-26 |
[Daily Caller] The Food and Drug Administration requested that pharmaceutical company Allergan recall specific breast implant models that may cause cancer, the FDA announced Wednesday. Allergan’s textured breast implants have been linked to a rare cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). The FDA warned of the implants, citing 33 patient deaths from breast implant-associated ALCL. Of the 13 deaths where the breast implant manufacturer is known, 12 involved implants made by Allergan, according to the FDA. Textured implants like the ones being recalled make up roughly 5 % of the implants used in the U.S., according to The New York Times. The FDA recommends that women with the implants refrain from removing them unless they start to experience symptoms, and Allergan is taking the specific models off the market. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#3 What are textured implants ? Popcorn ceilings comes to mind, but nobody does those anymore. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2019-07-26 08:32 |
#2 What are textured implants ? Are they like Mystique's boobs from X-Men ? |
Posted by: Dron66046 2019-07-26 05:00 |
#1 The FDA recommends that women with the implants refrain from removing them unless they start to experience symptoms... And those asymptomatic people, what about them ? |
Posted by: Besoeker 2019-07-26 04:32 |