Some 30,000 women will have to undergo surgery to remove breast implants suspected of causing cancer on eight women, according to France's health ministry.

"All women who have PIP (Poly Implant Prothèse) implants should return to see their surgeons urgently," government spokeswoman Valérie Pécresse said on French TV on Tuesday, according to BBC.

Dr. Laurent Lantieri, a plastic surgeon on the special committee formed by the French government to tackle the issue, said all PIP implants have to be removed.

Pécresse said the committee at the national cancer institute will meet on Friday to set a plan of action on how to find all the women implanted with the non-medical silicone gels from the PIP and decide on who would pay for the surgical removal of the implants and their replacement.

Last year, the French Society of Plastic Surgeons found PIP implants to easily rupture than other similar products.

Eight women who received PIP implants have developed breast cancer with one dying last year, France's Director General for Health, Jean-Yves Grall, told the French newspaper Liberation. But the head of France's National Cancer Institute, Dominique Maraninchi, said last week the cases were not necessarily linked to faulty implants, according to BBC.

The findings, as well as 2,000 complaints received by the police, prompted health authorities to shut down the company and sue its CEO for fraud. The PIP implant was also banned last year.

So far, only 523 PIP implants have been removed.

The PIP implants were also exported. An estimated 40,000 British women may have them, according to BBC.