Women are getting boob jobs made from cadavers why an NYC doc worries it could lead to cancer scares

The latest cosmetic craze has grave origins. Across the country, women are embracing a buzzed-about injectable filler made from donated cadaver fat — yes, that’s tissue from dead bodies — to fill in, smooth over and enhance their shape. But one NYC plastic surgeon isn’t buying the hype and is flatly refusing to use the so-called “off the shelf fat” in breast procedures, even as it’s billed as the next big thing in regenerative medicine. Dr.Tommaso Addona, president of New York Plastic Surgical Group, isn’t actually against using cadaver fat fillers like Alloclae as a tool — but he’s not ready to use it to give anyone a bigger chest.“If you took this product and used it in a different setting, my anxiety would drop,” he told The Post. “But the breast is a unique organ, and I think it needs to be respected appropriately.”He added that he’s “not comfortable” with the research that’s currently available.“Proceeding with placing this in other areas of the body is totally OK with me,” Addona said.

“However, the breast, I think, warrants more attention, more studies and more evaluation in the coming years.”One of Addona’s main concerns centers on whether AlloClae could complicate routine breast cancer screening and other imaging tests. With limited long-term data, questions remain about whether the injected, pre-dead material could lead to fat necrosis, or the death of fatty tissue.“If you take a patient’s own fat, the potential of having dead fat is pretty small, but it’s not zero,” said Addona, who has performed more than 10,000 breast cases.“I don’t know what the potential of this fat not surviving is.”If the filler fails to integrate in the breast, it could potentially form oil cysts or calcifications that show up as hard, suspicious masses on imaging like mammograms — potentially triggering false alarms for cancer.“That, to me, would generate concern, because a radiologist could say, ‘This looks ...