Breast Cancer Treatment Offers Better Outcome

Breast Cancer Treatment Offers Better Outcome to Women with Breast Implants

For Women with Breast Implants

Breast Cancer Treatment Offers Better Outcome

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Brachytherapy can successfully treat early-stage breast cancer in women with implants and preserve the breast’s appearance.

Breast brachytherapy substantially reduces the risk of implant hardening.

Approximately one in eight women who undergo breast augmentation will develop breast cancer during her lifetime.

CHICAGO — Women with early-stage breast cancer who have undergone breast augmentation may be treated successfully with a partial-breast radiation treatment called brachytherapy, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Patients treated with brachytherapy have better cosmetic outcomes and avoid the risk of the implant hardening, compared to patients who undergo whole-breast radiation therapy.

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The most common breast cancer treatment for patients with breast implants is skin-sparing mastectomy and implant exchange. Whole-breast radiation therapy after lumpectomy is an option, but carries a substantial risk during the healing process of scar tissue wrapping around the implant, causing it to become rock-hard and extremely painful. This condition, known as capsular contracture, also distorts the appearance of the breast.

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