TAMPA — After breastfeeding triplets, Lisa Medlen wanted her body to look the way it did before pregnancy.

She saw a cosmetic surgeon about getting a breast lift but he recommended implants. He never mentioned any risk, she said.

In January, some 20 years after her surgery, Medlen noticed one breast was swollen and “sloshy.”

A mammogram revealed almost two inches of fluid in her breast. A biopsy confirmed that a lymphoma, a form of cancer, was present in the scar tissue that forms around the implant.

Medlen, who lives in St. Petersburg, had surgery in February to remove the implants and the scar tissue. She later learned that her model of implant had been recalled in 2019 at the request of the Food and Drug Administration because of higher than normal incidences of cancer.

“It was ver

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