Twenty women with breast implants PIP have declared having cancer

posted on: Dec 31 2011 8:14 by RDugey. Viewed 13 times.


French health authorities announced yesterday that 20 women with breast implants Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) have declared having cancer, according to the French Agency of sanitary safety and health products (AFSSAPS).

"Has not established any link between these cases of cancer and implants", which are retired in France by its health risks because they can break, added the AFSSAPS.

According to that agency, it's 3 cases of lymphoma, 15 of breast andenocarcinoma, a case of andenocarcinoma of lung and leukemia mieloblástica acute.

Up to 16 of these cases are malignant tumors of breast and other four malignant tumors that do not affect the breasts, according the AFSSAPS, that counts on the other hand 1,143 ruptures of implants and 495 reactions inflammatory.

In addition, 672 preventive interventions which have been to remove the implants have been 23 ruptures, he added the Agency.

In France is u000athey accumulate until now 2,200 complaints against the company PIP of 30,000 patients that were introduced these prostheses, while the judicial liquidation of it left in the street one hundred workers.

The founder of the company, Jean-Claude more, 72-year-old faces two judicial investigations for fraud

After detecting problems in the implants, the Government advised the French to remove them and undertook to pay the extraction, but it will only support the placement of new prostheses in cases in which this is done for medical reasons and not aesthetic.

Altogether, it is estimated that you between 400,000 and 500,000 women wear these implants in all the world