The case for a national breast implant registry in Canada.

SummaryThe House of Commons Standing Committee on Health proposed in 2022 to start a national registry for breast implants. Why, and what requirements are needed, will be outlined. Breast implant products are not always in compliance with international norms and standards, and several scandals have occurred because of industry fraud.

Breast implant illness: Is it causally related to breast implants?

Once believed to be completely inert implants, Silicon Breast Implants (SBIs) have been shown to be able to induce a chronic inflammatory response in the body which can lead to a variety of possible manifestations ranging from the most common capsular contraction to rarer conditions such as malignancies and autoimmune diseases. Among the latter, new syndromes have been consistently recognized: Breast Implant Illness (BII) and autoimmunity/autoinflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA syndrome/Shoenfeld's Syndrome). The pathophysiological mechanisms underlying such syndromes are not yet clear and the overlap they show with other common conditions have sparked an important debate in the scientific community regarding their existence and their cause-effect relationship with SBIs.