3,000
women in UK at risk from faulty breast implants as Government finally orders
review of dangers from cheap silicone
·
Ruptures rates may be seven times higher than
at first feared
·
Health Secretary 'concerned and unhappy' at
new data
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Plastic surgeons warned of dangers five years
ago
·
Founder of French firm which supplied
implants facing charges
More than 3,000 women in the UK face complications from controversial French breast implants it was feared today as the Government launched a review of the risks.
The reassessment was triggered after a major cosmetic surgery
company told ministers privately that rupture rates could be as high as 7 or 8
per cent.
Around 40,000 women in Britain are believed to have had silicone
implants made by the Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), including thousands who
underwent reconstructive breast surgery through the NHS.
So after the recent news about breast implants... Would any of
you girls still get them?
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