A 42-year-old woman paid $10,000 for Alloclave, a donor-fat breast augmentation product, but the injected tissue died without adequate blood supply, forming hard lumps that look like cancer on mammograms. Fat necrosis can happen with any fat graft and makes it harder to spot real tumors during screening.
This woman paid $10,000 to have donor fat injected into her breasts, and now they're full of lumps that won't go away. It's called Alloclave, fat from people who donated their bodies processed into an injection. Those lumps are called fat necrosis. When fat doesn't get enough blood supply, it dies, and your body walls it off into a hard lump or an oil cyst. That can happen with your own fat too, which is why how it's placed matters so much. And those lumps can be a problem every time she gets a mammogram because they look suspicious. That can mean extra scans, a biopsy, and days of waiting to hear it isn't cancer every single time. I'm 42 years old. And if it ever was really cancer, it's harder to detect through all of those lumps.
