The UK Government has made a statement that the PiP breast implants are NOT a long-term health risk, as previously thought.
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, the current 'kingpin' of the NHS, has been collecting all available data on the previous rumours that the (now liquidated) French company had produced toxic products. The expert group, led by Sir Keogh studied information on 240,000 implants of different
makes used throughout England, which have been given to 130,000 women,
along with detailed findings from 5,600 removal operations.
PiP were producing about 100,000 breast implants a year for worldwide use over about 20 years. The medical and cosmetic uses of these implants had helped an enormous amount of women worldwide. There was a recent scare that they could rupture, causing long-term health problems, which has led many people to have them removed. The NHS has removed them in about 490 cases so far.
About one breast implant in five needs replacing within 10 years,
whatever the make, so it is unlikely that all the 7,000 women who
had PIP implants before 2001 still have the same implants.
The Department of Health published on the 18 June 2012 'It is now clear that PiP implants are more likely than other implants to
rupture early, and that some patients who experience implant rupture
will develop a local reactions to silicone. In line with good clinical
practice those surgeons and clinics that have used PiP implants have a
responsibility to take proactive steps to contact their former patients
and to share with them the latest information regarding the health
implication, including the evidence summarised in the report.'(sic)
Stay Healthy!
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