There are very few absolute answers, but I can absolutely answer: Absolutely not.
As for the true risk profile.... We talk about slick marketing. I have a link to some board-certified plastic surgeons who are also on the executive committee as the thought leaders of their societies. When I read their professional websites today, it sounds like they're saying, “Don't worry, little lady; if you get cancer from these implants, it's not really a big deal. It is 100% curable, and no ALCL patient has ever needed chemotherapy or radiation.”
I can tell you that when I read that blatantly inaccurate misinformation last week, in 2023....
Quite honestly, patients are using these fancy, pretty websites with half-marketing, half-medical information. If I were a patient using that surgeon's website, I would walk away thinking that not only is that information false but also that it is dangerous. This is where patients have no power and no control.
I'm also not in a position to want to put myself in some kind of campaign and then be sued by plastic surgeons. In our social media support groups, we've already had threatening letters from surgeons who disagree with the harmed patients. We're just a lot of volunteers who, for some reason, are now getting letters threatening legal action.