Cancer risk of breast implants '10 times higher than first feared': Shock warning from surgeons .. as one British survivor relives ordeal

The Daily Mail reports:

The number of women at risk of blood cancer triggered by the most popular type of breast implant used in Britain has been ‘hugely underestimated’, warns a world authority on a newly emerging disease.

American plastic surgeon Professor Mark Clemens, who has been tracking cases since the first were reported in 2011, said while ‘still very rare’, the true incidence was ten times higher than women were often told.

Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma, or BIA-ALCL, has been identified in 173 patients worldwide. At least 11 of them are British.

However, the numbers currently being seen ‘could be just the tip of the iceberg’, according to one NHS breast surgeon who has treated three women with the disease in the past year.

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