Artificial breasts for side effect risk
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Last year, a symposium was held on May 25 for patients and physicians to discuss future actions on the issue of voluntary breast removal used for breast reconstruction after breast cancer surgery, which poses a risk of causing side effects.
About 100 people, including breast cancer patients and doctors, participated in the symposium held in Minato-ku, Tokyo.
An Irish distributor voluntarily recalled in July last year that the only approved product in the country for the use of artificial breasts for breast reconstruction after surgery for breast cancer had the risk of causing a special blood cancer.
"If you are already using it, you don't need to worry about it if you have regular use, but if you have a problem, you should consider replacing the artificial breast." I called.
Patient groups also showed the results of a questionnaire survey of more than 900 patients, indicating that 37 people discontinued reconstructive surgery due to the effects of this voluntary recall and 18 had removed artificial breasts by reoperation. That is.
In October of last year, another product sold by the company that voluntarily collected was approved by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, but women in their 40s who had breast cancer had left postponement of reconstruction surgery due to concerns about new risks. "I would like more products approved for safety to be approved."