Breast Implant Recall Creates Difficult Decision For Women

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“The longer I thought about it, I thought, ‘There’s no way I’m keeping these in my body.’ ” A cancer survivor describes finding out her breast implants had been pulled off the market.

The first time Michelle Peterson heard that there might be a problem with her breast implants was when a friend at work told her they had been pulled off the market. Mrs. Peterson spent the weekend researching the connection between her specific type of breast implant and a rare cancer.

“The longer I thought about it, I thought, ‘There’s no way I’m keeping these in my body,’ ” said Mrs. Peterson, a 38-year-old breast cancer survivor who lives in Nashville, Tenn. “I did not sit around waiting for signs of this type of cancer....

 

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