Short transcript excerpt from a conversation with Robert Whitfield MD about breast implant complications. The speaker and Dr. Whitfield discuss that some surgeons (especially in rural areas) may not recognize or remove problematic scar tissue or implants, so patients should proactively advocate for removal to prevent recurrent problems such as implant-associated lymphoma or infection.
IT field. What do you think is the reason that they're leaving it? Because they don't know because you're a reconstructive surgeon after cancer patients need to be removed many, many dangerous parts of their body. So the regular operators that is doing this, like you said, rural areas, there are so many providers that they may not be skilled. Is it why they don't remove? Is it they didn't learn about it?
Yeah, I don't think they believe this is a real problem and they don't believe that that's a necessary part of it. So if you're the patient and you're concerned about breast implant associated lymphoma, you're concerned about bacterial infection, you have to advocate for yourself. If you've had multiple operations like you're describing, advocate for yourself to get the scar tissue removed because you don't want to then in three months or three years have the same situation, not feel better.
