Key takeaways:

Women who underwent cancer-directed mastectomy with immediate implant-based reconstruction exhibited increased risk for multiple types of lymphoma.

Absolute risks remain “extremely low,” researchers wrote.

The link between breast implants and lymphoma is broader than initially believed, results of a cohort study confirmed.

Women who completed breast cancer treatment and underwent mastectomy followed by implant-based reconstruction exhibited increased risk for several forms of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

This study provides the first epidemiologic data to confirm elevated risks for any subtype other than anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL), a rare form of cancer first linked to breast implants nearly 15 years ago.

However, researchers emphasized absolute risks remain “ext

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