A cancer survivor asked her surgeon to remove textured breast implants and the surrounding capsule after learning about a potential cancer link. The surgeon did a comprehensive capsulectomy instead of the easier partial removal, and later pathology found cancer cells in the tissue that would have been left behind.
But again, part of why I came to you was you were thorough. I wanted to make sure after you get that you have cancer, then you go through the process and then you're like, okay, your lymph nodes are clear, you're good, you know. And now it's been 10 years and you read something that says, oh, these textured implants could be cause you to have cancer, just a different kind. And then you were like, I'm going to take that whole capsule out and I'm going to make sure there's no cancer in it. I was like, okay, that's my guy, you know, because I don't want to get that phone call telling me I have cancer again and I'm not going to ignore this, you know. And so I like that you were that thorough in digging into what's going on with us. You know, again, you just didn't do it, take the easy way like other surgeons. Oh, we'll just leave that in there. The body's going to absorb it, you know. And I'm like, well, what if there's cancer in it? You know, that was again one of the reasons I came to you was I liked that aggressive stance you had on that.
