Dr. Robert Whitfield explains breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL), a rare cancer in the tissue around implants. He covers who's at higher risk, what symptoms warrant evaluation, and how it differs from breast cancer, with evidence on diagnosis and treatment.
Tonight we are going to talk about breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma, or for short, BIA-ALCL, and about other rare cancers that have been reported in the capsule around breast implants. And then we'll have a special discussion around breast cancer itself. And so the goal of this is to educate. It's never to create any fear. The goal is just to give you a clear map of what this is and what it is not and who appears to be at higher risk with the symptoms or— and which ones deserve more evaluation and what the evidence does not tell us to do.
