Final sale: my eight-year struggle to return recalled breast implants After a voluntary double mastectomy, I learned that my implants put me at risk of lymphoma — and no one would remove them

https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/21/allergan-natrelle-breast-implants-recall-fda-lymphoma/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--wVG1oYJdhvaynMc13ng8GHKritRCkoZ-xqBy2JXWwpWDDnzzDR00Kdz4CfdfGf55_3Ge8EF38qCMQc0kPOAvP04oVBA&_hsmi=343359550&utm_content=343359550&utm_source=hs_email How she finally got a ticking time bomb out of her body We have a ton of news to digest today, but make room for this First Opinion. Oceana Callum tells a haunting and horrifying story of living with breast implants after cancer treatment that were later voluntarily recalled because they were linked to another form of cancer. No surgeon would agree to remove them unless she actually developed lymphoma, a decision supported by the FDA. Insurers have to cover breast reconstruction, for its mental health and other benefits, but not implant removal. “For many cancer survivors, potentially carcinogenic implant removal is, obviously, integral to our peace of mind,” Callum writes. “Having a ticking time bomb in one’s body is, ironically, to be imprisoned in the same situation from which many of us struggled brutally to be freed.” Read how she got out.