By Lauren Dunn and Maggie Fox
When Michelle Forney’s breast started swelling and itching,
doctors told her she had mastitis, a common infection, and treated her
with antibiotics. When she discovered that she, in fact, had a rare form
of lymphoma and that it was probably caused by her breast implant, she
was both furious and frightened.
Forney is just one of
hundreds of breast-implant recipients who have developed a rare blood
cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). The Food and Drug
Administration has been investigating reports linking breast implants
with the cancer, and now has more than 400 reports about patients who developed ALCL after having a breast implant, including nine who died.
“I
had my breast implants for about 19 years. And everything was fine for
many of those years until about three years ago,” when she developed
major itching and pain in her breast, said Forney, who is 46 and lives
in Sacramento.
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Source: NBC News
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