Breast implant scare: Interpol seeks French boss arrest

[muriel_volestrangler]

Interpol has said it is seeking arrest of the founder of a French firm at the centre of a global breast implants scare.

The international police agency listed Jean-Claude Mas, aged 72, as being being sought in Costa Rica for offences concerning "life and health".

Earlier, France advised 30,000 woman to remove faulty breast implants made by Mr Mas' Poly Implant Prothese firm.

It said there was no proven cancer risk but they could rupture dangerously.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16324216

Wow - I didn't think it would go that far.

[alp227]

1. Although I personally oppose implants for non medical reasons, adults have the right to

do whatever the HELL they want with their own body/health as long as they don't encroach on others' rights...

but those who manufacture the means to do so should be accountable to the law.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Sad. Even with 'good' implants, these have to be replaced after a few years...

and all implants have risks.

Better to not have implants placed at all, unless a woman is flat-chested. This whole thing about implants to make the breasts huge is simply crazy.

[newfie11]

4. Not always true

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I have done lots of mammograms on women with implants 7-10 years old and even older.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. They're the lucky ones. My nephew is a doctor and, like mitral valves...

implants are expected to require replacement, because they aren't part of the body.

[T_i_B]

3. Kick to top

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[LeftishBrit]

5. kick

[suffragette]

7. One article noted that 80% of these were for cosmetic reasons, so 20% were likely reconstructive

http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/9622651-418/french-will-pay-for-removal-of-risky-breast-implants.html

France’s state health care system normally pays for implants for medical reasons, such as after a mastectomy, but not for cosmetic implants. About 80 percent of those with the PIP implants had them for aesthetic reasons.

Annie Mesnil, who had a PIP implant to replace a breast removed after cancer in 1999, said she was relieved that the Health Ministry “accepts the idea that there is a potential danger.” But she added: “It’s not enough. They will pay for the removal of the implants, but they will not pay for the replacements.”

After the PIP product was recalled last year, a mammogram and ultrasound did not reveal any problems with Mesnil’s implant. But Mesnil, 62, had it removed anyway, at her own expense, out of fear.

When her surgeon took it out and studied it, “he discovered it had already burst,” she said. “I don’t know what’s spilled inside my body.”