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Breast Cancer
Breast implants after mastectomy don't reduce patients' long-term survival
January 13th, 2005
Breast implants after mastectomy to treat breast cancer do not reduce the long-term survival of patients, reveals the first study on the long-term effects of breast implants. Previous studies have shown that breast implants do not have adverse health effects for cancer patients in the short term, but no representative study has addressed the question in the long term. According to their study in the January 2005, issue of Breast Cancer Research, Gem Le from the Northern California Cancer Centre and colleagues analyzed data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Breast Implants Surveillance Study, carried out in Iowa, the San...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-13)
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