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Breast implants: The scandal, the outcry, and assessing the risks
Author(s) -
Spiegelhalter David,
Knight Stuart,
Sant Tony
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2012.00616.x
Subject(s) - knight , political science , medicine , business , law , economic history , history , physics , astronomy
The PIP scandal broke last year: thousands of women had received substandard breast implants that contained industrial‐grade gel and were liable to leak. What were the risks? Should the implants be removed? Amid huge public outcry, David Spiegelhalter, Stuart Knight and Tony Sant were asked urgently to report.