Government medical advisers said Monday it's too soon to ban a type of breast implant that has recently been linked to a rare form of cancer, saying more information is needed to understand the problem.
The Food and Drug Administration panel didn't recommend any immediate restrictions on breast implants after a day reviewing the latest research on the risks of the devices, which have been subject to safety concerns for decades.
"Do we want to get into the situation where we pull one sweetener and the replacement is even worse?" said Karla Ballman, a biostatistician at New York's Weill Cornell School of Medicine. "I think a knee jerk reaction of just pulling something without knowing what the replacement will be might get us into more trouble."
In the U.S., roughly 400,000 women get breast implants each year; 100,000 women get them after cancer surgery. She and other patients want the FDA to require manufacturers to give standardized risk disclosure information to all women considering implants.In the U.S., most women choose silicone implants, which are considered more natural looking than saline implants. Both types have a silicone outer shell.
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