No greater cancer risk for patients with Metal-on-Metal hip implants

No greater cancer risk for patients with metal-on-metal hip implants, study says (OrthoSuperSite)
Patients with metal-on-metal implants stand no more chance of developing cancer 7 years after hip replacement than the general population, according to findings of a study commissioned by the National Joint Registry of England and Wales and Hospital Episode Statistics.
For their study, investigators from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter analyzed the cancer rates in patients with metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implants and compared them with the cancer rates of patients with other bearing surfaces ...