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While it has been demonstrated that prophylactic mastectomy reduces breast cancer incidence among women at high risk, many women often consider this disfiguring surgery unacceptable. One alternative approach may be breast reduction surgery.…

A retrospective cohort study was performed in Sweden to evaluate the possibility that an individual symptom or constellation of illness symptoms related to silicone occurs in women after breast implant surgery. A random sample (n = 2500) of…

Epidemiologic studies have found no association between breast implants and cancer or well-defined connective tissue diseases. However, women with cosmetic breast implants continue to report specific as well as nonspecific physical and psyc…

Case reports have suggested that children born to women with silicone breast implants may have an excess risk of rheumatic disease and/or esophageal disorders. In Sweden, the authors conducted a retrospective cohort study of 5,874 children …

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…

To determine whether women with cosmetic breast implants have distinct demographic, lifestyle, and reproductive characteristics that put them at increased risk for subsequent morbidity, the authors compared 1,369 such women to 2,211 women w…

[OBJECTIVE] To examine the risk of neurologic disorders among women with breast implants. [BACKGROUND] Case reports in the literature have raised concern about a possible link between silicone breast implants and some types of neurologic d…

[OBJECTIVE] To examine the relation between connective tissue disease and related conditions and breast implants. [DESIGN] Retrospective cohort study of all women in the Swedish national inpatient registry who underwent breast augmentation…