Dr. Robert Whitfield MD states that ruptured implants are a failed medical device that should be removed; he emphasizes removing ruptured implants in cancer patients and notes growing scientific evidence supporting removal. The clip is a brief, authoritative recommendation against leaving ruptured implants in place.
Because that interaction between your tissues and that material, like, for me listening, if you have a rupture and you've been told it's okay, I assure you, it's not. There's no way that's okay. That's a failed medical device and it should be removed. If you were a cancer patient of mine, I would have taken that out. And they are the most highly surveilled patients on earth. So nobody would sit around telling their cancer patient it's okay to leave a ruptured implant in. Certainly not me, who had did that my entire career. We would take them to the operating room and take out all that material that's ruptured. So that more and more evidence that's scientifically based, there's no questioning it. It's coming forth and.
