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All right. I think that most of them, um, got it right.

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The correct answer is c breast implant is as associated with

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non-Hodgkin lymphoma is not associated with, uh, connectivity, tissue disease,

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breast cancer. Let's, uh, uh, just,

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uh, briefly talk about the, uh, history of, uh,

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breast implant because it is interesting. So, very first,

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the breast silicone implants were developed by two plus surgeons

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from Texas in 1960s. Before that,

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people were just directly inject the silicone gel or piam to

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people's breasts for augmentation. And then this,

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a q1, uh, plastic urg developed this, uh,

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silicone implant.

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This whole story is filmed taking a movie named Breast

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Man back in 1997. However,

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uh, there are lot, still are lots of, uh,

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rupture and other adverse events associated with the silicone implant.

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So that's why f d a bond silicone implant in 1992

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F D A didn't, uh, uh,

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left the restriction until 14 years later when after

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the, um, better material for the implant she was,

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was developed. So now they are using the, uh,

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fifth generation of the, uh, silicon implant.

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And that in United State alone wasn't 3.5 million

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women have a breast implant.

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Most of them are very young.

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70% of their patients are less than 40 years

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old, and there is a big money in involved This.

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Xiaoqin Jennifer Wang, MD

Assistant Professor

University of Kentucky

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Ultrasound

Mammography

MRI

Breast