A European scientific committee affirms that PIP implants cannot be associated with a particular toxicity. According to him, except rupture, a preventive withdrawal is not necessary.
Preventive removal of fraudulent PIP breast prostheses would not be necessary, except in the event of rupture. This is the conclusion of the Scientific Committee on New Health Risks (SCENIHR) mandated by the European Commission to ensure that ruptures of these prostheses do not represent “any increased health risk.” “
A position contrary to the French authorities
In detail, SCENIHR states that “PIP implants have a much higher rupture rate than implants from other manufacturers, but to date no increased health risk has been associated with exposure to silicone gel. emanating from a PIP implant compared to other implants. “And the Committee added that” even in the event of inflammation following the rupture of a PIP implant, no association could be established with breast cancer or anaplastic large cell lymphomas “, specifies the text.
As a result, SCENIHR concludes that there is no convincing data “to justify routine removal of intact PIP implants. “A position contrary to that of France. With us, since December 2011, the French government has recommended that 30,000 women with PIP breast implants have them removed, not only because of their fragility and therefore the greater risk of rupture than normal, but also because of their fragility. because of the irritant power of the “homemade” silicone gel used by the Var company for several years.
But other countries have made a choice contrary to ours. British authorities, for example, have never recommended the general removal of implants to the 47,000 women with PIP in the country.
A new PIP trial in 2015
Anyway, according to the latest report from the French Medicines Agency (ANSM), 17,411 women had their PIP breast implants removed at the end of December 2013, most of them as a preventive measure. The Agency has so far reported 74 breast cancers occurring in women with PIP implants, but noted that they are not “related to the particularities of PIP prostheses. “
On the judicial side, Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of the company PIP, who sold these fraudulent breast implants for years was sentenced last December by the Marseille Criminal Court (Bouches-du-Rhône) to four years in prison for ” deception and swindle. But the case is not over. The instruction continues at the pole health de Marseille, on the “injury and manslaughter” component, following health problems and the death of a patient. It will lead to another trial, but not before 2015.
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