United Kingdom finds no evidence to justify the withdrawal of PIP breast prosthesis

The Minister of health British, Andrew Lansley, said today that until the date not be have found "evidence" that justify the withdrawal of the prosthesis mamarias of the marks French PIP.

Lansley told the BBC that "the overwhelming evidence still support the advice previously given to women".

"Is not recommended that routinely women retire implants that the risk associated with an operation of this type would be beyond the benefit of removing them", added Lansley.

2010 The French authorities detected that these prostheses were manufactured with a different from the stated and evaluated silicone gel for the certificate of marketing in the European Union (EU).

United Kingdom the Agency for regulation of health products and medicines (MHRA) indicated that the risk of these implants could break was 1 per cent, instead of 5 per cent estimated by France.

On 21 December the u000aMHRA announced that he would not recommend its removal have not found evidence of a relationship of implants with a type of cancer

On Saturday the British Executive reported that it would assess the risk of these implants after receiving new information that had not been communicated to the MHRA.

The Minister of Health stated that he hopes that by the end of week experts may already have reliable figures on the quality of the implants.

In United Kingdom it is estimated that some 40,000 women have the brand Poly Implants Prothéses (PIP) silicone prostheses, including hundreds who underwent surgery for reconstruction of the chest through the service of national healthcare (NHS).

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