Britain said on Friday a group of experts had concluded
there was no need for the routine removal of breast impants made by a now
defunct French company at the heart of a global health scare.
However, the government said
concerned women who had received implants made by Poly Implant Prothese through
the state-funded National Health Service could have these removed and replaced
with the operation paid for by the NHS.
It added it expected private
health providers to make the same offer.
The French government has
advised 30,000 women in France who bought implants from PIP to have them
removed after concerns since the death from cancer last year of a French woman
carrying PIP implants.
"Our advice remains the
same that there is not sufficient evidence to recommend routine removal,"
British Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said in a statement.
"We believe that private
healthcare providers have a moral duty to offer the same service to their
patients that we will offer to NHS patients-free information, consultations,
scans and removal if necessary."
About 300,000 PIP implants were
sold worldwide before the firm went out of business last year after an official
probe revealed it was using a cheaper unapproved industrial-grade silicone in
some of it products.
An estimated 40,000 British
women have been fitted with the implants.
The UK expert group review said
it had found no link between the implants and cancer, but had not been able to
establish if the PIP implants were more likely to rupture than others, saying
information from the industry to the regulator was patchy.
"Reports show that, of the
PIP implants that have been tested, there is no risk of dangerous toxins
leaking into the body if an implant did rupture," the Department of Health
said in a statement.
"However, we are not
confident that the manufacturer did not change the silicone in the implants, so
cannot rule out the possibility that some are toxic."
Reuters
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