Butt implants linked to deadly form of cancer for the first time

A woman who received buttock implants developed a deadly lymphoma, the same form of cancer previously linked to textured breast implants, surgeons at the University of Southern California said.

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The Food and Drug Administration has been investigating reports linking the textured breast implants to a blood cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). At least 457 women in the U.S. have been diagnosed with breast implant-associated ALCL, with more than 600 cases worldwide. Sixteen women have died, nine in the U.S.

In the new case, a middle-aged woman received bilateral textured silicone gluteal implants, the USC surgeons reported. A year later she developed ulceration at the site of the implants and was later diagnosed with gluteal implant-associated ALCL, according to the study published in the in the Feb. 15 Aesthetic Surgery Journal.

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