Robert Whitfield MD explains how the body walls off implants rather than rejecting them outright. Pre-existing inflammation or autoimmune conditions can make reactions worse. Cancer patients who've had chemotherapy and radiation face higher risk of extrusion, where the implant works its way out.
Cancer patients who have had chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
And that's what gives you the inflammation.
So what you're saying essentially is when you put an implant in, if you're already having like inflammation problems to begin with or you already have underlying autoimmune and then you put the implant in, your body is pushing it out like a splinter or is it trying to wall it off from the rest of your body?
Yeah, it walls it off. It won't reject it in the truest sense like in the cosmetic patient because the tissues are intact around it. But in a cancer patient who's had chemotherapy and radiation therapy, you will have examples of extrusion where the device is literally coming out of them.
So what seems to be happening is that people who got implants at 21 years old or 18 years old, like I did, 10 years, 15 years, 18 years, whatever, down the line, they're ex planning because it seems like it's exponentially getting worse. Is that.
