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Germany urges women to check implants

FRANKFURT -- Germany's medical safety board on Friday advised women with potentially defective breast implants to consult their doctors but stopped short of recommending their removal.

A spokesman for Germany's Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) said: “We recommend affected women consult their physicians to make an individual risk assessment. Removal could be the result of such an assessment but there is no blanket recommendation to have surgery.”

Nineteen women have suffered ruptured PIP implants in the country, according to reports from German clinics and doctors.

“We have been warning of the rupture risk in PIP products since April 2010. There is so far no evidence of any causal link to cancer,” the spokesman added.

In France, public health care funds will be used to finance the removals but new implants will only be paid for in cases where the initial implant was inserted for medical reasons.

In Germany statutory medical insurers (GKV) would only fund the removal of an implant for medical reasons, otherwise they would recoup part of the cost from the patient, a spokesman said.

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