Cancer No Threat to Metal Hips (Biloine Young @ OTW)
Patients who received metal-on-metal hip replacements are at no more risk of developing cancer in the seven years following their surgery than are people in the general population. This is according to a study led by the University of Bristol and commissioned by the National Joint Registry of England and Wales, published April 4 in BMJ.
Ashley Blom, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the School of Clinical Sciences at the University of Bristol, who led the team that undertook the study, said “Although this is very reassuring, we do not know...
