New information about a case of breast cancer

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Medical devices
08/12/2011

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• Medical device

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• Publié par: ansm-medical-devices
• Publié le: 08 décembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 10
• Licence : En savoir +
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• Langue: English

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complications with, or premature replacement of, breast implants.

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Yours sincerely,

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REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE

all stakeholders (health authorities, healthcare professionals, learned societies, patients’ associations, etc.).

Saint Denis, 8 December 2011

Prof. Dominique Maraninchi
Afssaps General Director

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Letter to healthcare professionnals

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patient who had been using PIP implants for several years.

March 2010, this new information justifies upgrading the recommendations issued by Afssaps:

examinations.

must be discussed with all women concerned.

Dear Sir or Madam,

cancer.

case of breast adenocarcinoma.

second implant.