Commentary on: Toward Successful International Pooling of Breast Implant Registry Data: The Role of Dataset Uniformity
Caroline Glicksman · 2026
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Caroline Glicksman wrote a 2026 commentary praising work by the International Collaboration of Breast Registry Activities on pooling breast implant registry data across countries. Crises such as the Poly Implant Prothèse scandal and implant-linked lymphoma showed that separate national databases miss rare but serious harms.
Founded in 2013, the collaboration now links nine registries, including two from the United States. Glicksman stresses that making independently built datasets speak to each other is harder than starting a registry: definitions, coding, capture rates, and even language differ. The revised shared dataset sharpens categories for first and repeat surgery. It adds detail on implant removal and replacement, and merges loose labels for body-wide symptoms into wording that records what patients report without presuming a cause. She frames harmonization as continuing work, not a one-time fix.
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| CREATOR | Caroline Glicksman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6934 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |