Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

What Are The Risks of Transferring Fat to the Breasts?

29 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD (uploaded June 29, 2022) answering whether transferring fat to the breasts increases cancer risk. Dr. Whitfield states fat transfer, when placed properly, should not increase breast cancer risk because breast cancer is an epithelial cancer while transferred fat derives from mesenchymal cells; he also notes no evidence that fat transfer causes sarcoma.

Fat transfers should not promote risk to the breast if placed in the proper position. The question has always been asked, does fat transfer increase the risk of breast cancer? The answer is no. Breast cancer is an epithelial cancer. Fat is from mesenchymal stem cells. It can't form an epithelial cancer. What it can form is a sarcoma, and there's been no evidence that that will form. So the answer is no, it's not going to lead to risk.