Brinton LA

[BACKGROUND] A large follow-up study of cosmetic breast implant patients previously suggested an overall decrease in mortality but increased risks of brain and respiratory cancers and of suicides. [METHODS] This cohort of 12,144 implant pa…

In a US retrospective cohort study (1960-1996), 351 (4.8%) of 7,234 patients with breast implants and 62 (2.9%) of 2,138 patients who had undergone other types of plastic surgery reported subsequent rheumatoid arthritis (RA), scleroderma, s…

[BACKGROUND] Women who undergo breast reduction operations have substantially lowered risks of breast cancer, and the reasons remain unclear. The current investigation attempted to assess whether the reduction in breast cancer risk was rela…

[PURPOSE] There has been limited investigation of cancer risk other than breast cancer among patients with breast implants, despite some clinical and laboratory evidence suggesting links with certain cancer sites, including hematopoietic an…

Much attention has focused on disease risks among women receiving silicone breast implants, but there has been little evaluation of their mortality experience. We undertook a retrospective cohort study of 13,488 women receiving cosmetic imp…

Women undergoing breast reduction surgery have been reported to be at low subsequent risk of breast cancer, especially when the surgery is performed after age 40. To evaluate the age and time-related patterns of cancer risk following surgic…

[OBJECTIVE] Although clinical reports have raised concern that breast implants may either increase the risk of breast cancer or delay its diagnosis, epidemiologic studies have generally shown implant recipients to be at a reduced risk of su…

Several previous studies have shown that breast implant patients demonstrate a number of differences compared with the general population. However, studies have not compared patients with breast implants with women receiving other types of …

[OBJECTIVE] To compare selected characteristics of women with and without augmentation mammaplasty to identify differences between these 2 groups of women. [DESIGN AND STUDY PARTICIPANTS] White women identified as controls in previously co…

In a population-based case-control study of breast cancer that included 2174 cases and 2009 population controls under 55 years of age, prior breast implants were reported by 36 cases versus 44 controls. After adjustment for the matching fac…

Although hundreds of thousands of women in this country have had augmentation mammaplasty, little is known about long-term effects. Clinical studies have documented a decreased ability to detect breast lesions in women with implants, leadin…