2007-10-26 10:14:25 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
No. It can actullay cause breast cancer.
2007-10-26 10:17:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Past studies have indicated that "breast implants" might be responsible for "cancer". This was mostly surmised when the implant was leaking the silicone from them. I have seen very little on the "implant" itself being a causative factor of cancer. We use implants on patients who have had "mastectomies" or removal of the breasts secondary to cancer. The "implants" have not been found to "prevent" breast cancer (no studies that I could find).
2007-10-26 10:19:35 · answer #2 · answered by ursamaj2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you have all of your natural breast tissue and mammary gland removed and then the implants to replace your natural breast.
The only thing that can offer 100% protection from getting breast cancer is not having breasts.
Breast implants are more likely to actually cause cancer than prevent it, as they are introducing a foreign substance to your body. Just as most other toxins (cigarette smoke for example) have been shown to increase the risk of cancer, putting plastic inside your body would probably have the same potential effect.
2007-10-26 10:20:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A few women with high risk and family history of Breast Cancer have had complete mastectomies and reconstruction with implants. But this is a unusual procedure.
If you just have implants so you can have bigger boobs then that won't help for breast cancer.
2007-10-26 10:23:57 · answer #4 · answered by Dash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might not get cancer, but it can open up a whole other realm of equally dangerous conditions.
I've heard that Breast removal can lower the chance of breast cancer, but honestly, that sounds too much like castration to appeal to me.
2007-10-26 10:18:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, in fact, some implants make it more difficult to read mammograms. Also the silicone implants have ruptured and the material traveled all through the body; one woman had a huge arm filled with the stuff, so if you plan on getting them get saline.
2007-10-26 10:18:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell no.
So if you have them, dont think for a second you are immune or that you dont need breast checks.
Why would you think that having a lump of man-made material in your breast would save you from breast cancer???
If anything, having that crap in your body would contribute to disease!!
2007-10-26 10:27:02 · answer #7 · answered by allusian_fields 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If breast cancer runs in your family as it does in mine, you can opt for a double masectomy and go with the implants. More and more women are doing it. I sure wish my mom had done it
2007-10-26 10:17:55 · answer #8 · answered by eddie9551 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No breast implants will not keep you from getting cancer...If you are going to get cancer you will get it rather you have implants are not.What would make you think such a thing? implants do not cause or prevent cancer,all they are for is to enlarge your breast.Thats about it...
2007-10-26 10:20:19 · answer #9 · answered by slickcut 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you remove both of your entire breasts first and then get implants, but first look into the cons of implants.
2007-10-26 10:19:00 · answer #10 · answered by Lilith 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so, breast implants can probably provoke it more
sometimes the surgeons mess up and there's people who get their surgery done wrong, don't do it just be happy with what God gave you
2007-10-26 10:17:29 · answer #11 · answered by Yuri ^_^ 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋