In the two years following her breast cancer surgery, not a day went by when Mary Munney Griffiths wasn’t in pain. It was different from the burning she felt in her chest during eight weeks of radiation. This was a new sharp, shooting sensation that woke her up at night and stopped her cold in the grocery store.
She worried her cancer had returned, but tests said otherwise. When she finally got a surgeon to operate two years later, the doctor removed 24 plastic shards from her breast.
They were remnants of a medical device called BioZorb, which Griffiths’ physician had implanted to help maintain the shape of her breast. Instead of dissolving within about a year, as intended, it had broken into pieces.
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And this, kids, is why we need the MDR in the EU - the same one who everyone and their mothers complains about because it makes everything so much more expensive (it doesn't).
The US FDA was already less strict and guess how that developed since orange Hitler with the SouthAfrican Slave Holder Son came into Power.
otters_raft in publichealth
BioZorb Breast Cancer Device Injuries Were Kept Secret for Years | The Implants Were Supposed to Dissolve. They Didn’t.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-biozorb-cancer-implant-recall/And this, kids, is why we need the MDR in the EU - the same one who everyone and their mothers complains about because it makes everything so much more expensive (it doesn't).
The US FDA was already less strict and guess how that developed since orange Hitler with the SouthAfrican Slave Holder Son came into Power.