- Roundup 2019: Breast implants, mesh, paclitaxel-coated devices among hot topics at FDA expert panels – One undercurrent: Inadequacy of post-approval studies and spotty adverse event reporting, leading to incomplete data with which panelists could form opinions. It was a busy year for FDA’s expert advisory committees, called on to tackle many of its biggest medical device questions in 2019, new and old. […] Repeated meetings aren’t necessarily a negative, said … Continue reading Roundup 2019: Breast implants, mesh, paclitaxel-coated devices among hot topics at FDA expert panels →
- FDA Plans Meeting to Discuss Safety Data on Breast Implants – Associated Press, September 14, 2018. The FDA meeting on breast implants will discuss the safety of these devices and further action.
- Breast implants making women sick? Florida women take their case to Washington – WFTV News, September 12, 2018. Twenty women made their way to Washington, DC, to speak to the FDA about breast implants causing illness is thousands of women.
- Breast Implant Illness: Two Metro Women Say Implants Caused Years of Complications – WHO TV, May 2018. TV news reporters are discovering that women have been harmed by their breast implants, and the women get better when the implants are removed. When women speak up it helps other women.
- After 17 Years with Breast Implants, Princeton Woman Leads Calls for More Education, Safety – WFAA, April 16, 2018. A Texas woman says her breast implants made her sick. Now, she’s calling for more information to be shared between the FDA, doctors and patients.
- Breast Implants Causing Cancer – WJMN Local 3 News, September 2017. Stacey Boone says she was trying to boost her self-esteem, and wound up fighting for her life because of breast implant-associated lymphoma.
- Woman with Rare Cancer Linked to Breast Implants Seeks to Spread Awareness – CBS News, July 2017. Around 550,000 women last year received breast implants, but the FDA published a report this year linking implants to a rare cancer.
- A Shocking Diagnosis: Breast Implants “Gave Me Cancer” – The New York Times, May 2017. Raylene Hollrah was 33 when she learned she had breast cancer. She made a difficult decision to remove her breasts, undergo chemotherapy, and have reconstructive surgery. The breast implants she got after a mastectomy gave her a second cancer, a rare cancer called breast implant associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL).
- After Mastectomies, an Unexpected Blow: Numb New Breasts – The New York Times, January 2017. Dane’e McCree decided to have her breasts removed after learning she was at a high risk for breast cancer. After the mastectomy, she found her nipples were numb.
- Crystal Hefner Shares The Health Problems Breast Implants Can Pose – Forbes, July 2016. Crystal Hefner, the Playboy model and wife of Hugh Hefner, announced the recent removal of her breast implants.
- Crystal Hefner Removes Breast Implants, Says They ‘Slowly Poisoned’ Her – The Huffington Post Canada, July 2016. Crystal Hefner describes her breast implant surgery gone wrong. She talks about here implant removal and says her breast implants “slowly poisoned her.”
- Stephanie March Opens Up About Breast Augmentation Health Scare – Katie Kindelan, ABC News, June 30, 2016. Actress Stephanie March, best known for playing an assistant district attorney on “Law & Order: SVU,” has opened up about a dangerous reaction she experienced after undergoing breast augmentation.
- Janice Dickinson Regrets Getting Breast Implants, Believes It Affected Cancer Diagnosis – Medical Daily, May 2016. Supermodel Janice Dickinson was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer. Breast implants make it more difficult for mammograms to detect breast cancer.
- Fibromyalgia and Ruptured Silicone Gel Breast Implants – FDA Consumer Magazine, November/December 2001. An FDA study indicates that women whose silicone breast implants have ruptured may be at an increased risk of fibromyalgia, a chronic condition marked by fatigue, musculoskeletal aches and sleep disturbances.
