The other important question that patients want the answer to is whether silicone implants affect breast cancer? Do they cause cancer? Can they affect the identification of breast cancer? And this, once again, has also been looked at very carefully. Silicone implants appear to be the safest type of implant around, we’ve had a variety of other types of implants over the last twenty years, all of which have been removed from market because they’ve been considered unsafe, but silicone has been shown not to cause breast cancer. It doesn’t affect the detection of breast cancer. It changes the type of screening or investigations you have for breast cancer, because a mammogram is often not so easy, but there’s no impact and it doesn’t cause a generation of breast cancer.
