Robert Whitfield MD explains how the lymphatic system filters your body and why ruptured implants matter. Silicone from broken implants migrates to lymph nodes, sometimes causing armpit swelling. Doctors check sentinel lymph nodes in the armpit when evaluating cancer.
But why? What is it that happens with the lymphatic system where when, you know, you have implants or you have. You have these issues going on? Why was that so helpful to me? Why does that get so disrupted? Does it actually get clogged?
That's your filtration.
System, basically. So if you're.
Trying to detoxify, just.
Like, you.
Know, cancer is going to go to a lymph node basin. That's why they always check the lymph.
Node and the armpit.
They call it the sentinel.
Lymph node.
If you're having.
Like, many patients who have a.
Ruptured device will actually get silicone in.
A lymph node.
Okay. And that's how they learned that they had a problem.
They had swelling.
In the armpit that alerted them, like they may have.
You know, everybody.
Who feels any lymph nodes is worried about cancer. Number one.
