Breast cancer risk in women treated with augmentation mammoplasty (Review)

Surgical implantation of breast prostheses has become increasingly popularwhile the incidence of breast cancer is increasing each year. There has been nodefinitive consensus regarding the casual relationship between augmentation mammoplastyand breast cancer incidence, detection, treatment, mortality and survival. Thisreview summarizes the published evidence, including epidemiological studies andcase reports. All studies examined state that there is no breast cancer risk inprior augmented women. Moreover, there is also no significant difference in frequency,stage or mean tumor size between augmented and non-augmented women.