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RSS FeedsFacing a possible link between implants and rare lymphoma
(WorldNews Health)

 
 

23 april 2019 04:05:41

 
Facing a possible link between implants and rare lymphoma
(WorldNews Health)
 


In 2016, Jennifer Cook, a California schoolteacher who had breast implants in 2010, noticed a change in one of her breasts. So when a school play she attended with her class had a line in it about breast cancer and implants, she got nervous. After a quick online search turned up some scary stories, she got scanned and soon learned she had four masses around the implant - two of which were behind the implant, and therefore not palpable and not visible on a regular mammogram or ultrasound. She was diagnosed with something called breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma, or BIA-ALCL. Cook had chemotherapy and then surgery to remove the implants, followed by more chemotherapy....


 
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