Dr. Robert Whitfield says asymptomatic patients with textured breast implants don't need routine removal for cancer concerns. Know your exact implant type, especially if it's the recalled BioCell device, and watch for symptoms that actually warrant evaluation.
Like moving forward, you know, this is one of the most important, you know, aspects of the talk. So we don't recommend routine removal of textured implants or of implants in general. It's, it's so that people can make their best informed decision. And people who have no symptoms, only because of concern over BIALCL, you don't have to run out and get your implants removed. So the same is true for the rarer capsular cancers. Capsule cancers we will discuss next. If you do not have symptoms, then removal is definitely the patient's decision. So we can't ignore symptoms, but we just need to understand them and understand how to work them up and what are the indications for the workups. So if you have textured implants, especially the The recalled BioCell device. You should know your implant type, have your records, and stay in consistent follow-up for that reason. You should know the symptoms that deserve, uh, reaching out, making a call. You definitely— you have to know that. If you understand it, then you're going to be calmer about the entire situation.
