Does Breast Augmentation increase the chances to develop breast cancer?
Breast implants do not cause breast cancer, but they can delay finding a breast cancer. It is impossible to image all of the breast tissue in a woman with implants. The implant hides quite a bit of breast tissue, so it is harder to find an early breast cancer on these screening mammograms. Also, a woman with no breast implants has a mammogram consisting of 4 exposures. Due to the extra images we take in a woman with implants, your radiation exposure is doubled to 8 exposures. “The x-rays used for mammographic imaging of the breasts cannot penetrate silicone or saline implants well enough to image the overlying or underlying breast tissue. Therefore, some breast tissue (approximately 25%) will not be seen on the mammogram, as it will be covered up by the implant. In order to visualize as much breast tissue as possible, women with implants undergo four additional views as well as the four standard images taken during diagnostic mammography. In these additional x-ray pictures, called Eklu
