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, and those who have received them.
In February, the Food and Drug Administration issued a new update, citing more cases of a rare lymphoma cancer, BIA-ALCL, associated with breast implants. The next month, the FDA hosted a public, in Maryland, attended by plastic surgeons, manufacturers, and included personal testimonies from women who attribute their health problems to their implants.attended the March meeting and agrees that more effort needs to be put into patient education, industry-wide. According to Sieber, patients at the meeting were not only sharing that they were uninformed of risks, but that "they also felt like many plastic surgeons were being very dismissive of their symptoms.
, including a boxed warning on implant packaging and a "patient decision checklist," which is intended to standardize and guide doctor-patient conversations by outlining all potential risks. "We have heard from many women that they are not fully informed of the risks when considering breast implants," said Amy Abernethy, principal deputy commissioner of the FDA, and Jeff Shuren, director of the FDA's center for devices and radiological health in
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