Are there medical risks connected with the use of silicone prosthesis for breast reconstruction?
Silicone prosthesis did not demonstrate ability to induce breast cancer. Various clinical studies moreover did not demonstrate a connection among silicone prosthesis and autoimmune diseases (sclerodermia, rheumatoid arthritis ). The more frequent local complication due to silicone breast prosthesis is represented by a fibrous reaction , that makes the reconstructed breast more hard and, in rare cases, deformed. When the prosthesis is broken , it is necessary to replace it surgically, to prevent that silicone gel diffuses to tissues determining the formation of granulomas. In which patients does chemotherapy have to be performed after mastectomy or quadrantectomy? After a surgical intervention for breast carcinoma, adjuvant chemotherapy (that is precautional chemotherapy) has to be performed in the patients whith positive axillary lymph nodes (that is in the patients with axillary limph nodes infiltrated by tumoral cells), to prevent metastasis in other organs. There is now a general te
