A small study of women with breast cancer suggests that those who have previously undergone surgery to receive breast implants face no poorer prognosis than do those without implants, despite the fact that mammograms were less accurate at picking up abnormalities in this group of women.

Women who had had breast implants were more likely to have tumors that could be detected by touch alone and were also more likely to have breast cancer that had spread to the lymph nodes, but the survival rates among both groups in the study were similar, researchers found.
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