Here are excerpts from the latest press coverage:
#1
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031015/frontpage/124486.shtml
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EXCERPTS:
WASHINGTON -- The women told regulators of breast implants that caused
rock-like scars, of silicone leaching into their organs and oozing
through their skin, of unending pain.
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Inamed's own research found 46 percent of breast cancer patients
getting silicone implants needed additional breast surgery within
three years -- as did one in five otherwise healthy women who had
breast enlargements
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Carolyn Wolf of Centerville, Va., described "a long thin greasy glob"
of silicone oozing from her eye and X-rays showing it lodged elsewhere
in her body.
We beg you, please protect the younger generation," she said.
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"My bones still scream with pain," breast cancer survivor Pam Dowd, of
Boise, Idaho, said at the hearing. She described having silicone
scraped off her chest wall when leaking implants were removed in 1995.
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But it was the critics' wrenching stories that appeared to move FDA
advisers. They grilled Inamed about why it couldn't provide long-term
studies proving how long implants really last.
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#2
http://www.smartmoney.com/bn/ON/index.cfm?story=ON-20031015-000044-0114
EXCERPTS: Panelist Nancy Dubler, professor of bioethics at Albert
Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, was on the FDA's panel 11
years ago when silicone implant sales were curbed. Dubler said after
almost a dozen years off the mainstream market, it "boggles" her mind
that the company submitted such short term data.
"Over 11 years, the company has made no attempt to make this a better
implant so that it might have a lower rupture rate," Dubler said.
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"I don't understand why they rupture," McGrath said. "Why aren't these
products more durable."
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#3
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ats-ap_health10oct15,0,2919291.story?coll=sns-health-headlines
FDA Advisers Want Silicone Implant Data
EXCERPTS: "A decade has passed and we sat here today talking about
two- and three-year data. I'm flabbergasted," said Dr. Thomas Whalen
of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the advisory panel's
chairman.
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But even after three years, up to 46 percent of silicone implant
recipients in a key Inamed study needed additional surgeries because
of painful scar tissue and other complications. Up to a quarter of the
women had to have the devices removed or replaced.
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#4
Ban on implants splits US women
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/15/1065917482089.html
EXCERPTS:
"My body was racked with joint pain" after having silicone implants,
Susan Cunningham told the panel. She said her health improved after
she had the implants removed but she is still too sick to work.
Carolyn Wolf said she had silicone implants in 1971 following a double
mastectomy with no problems for about 10 years. Then she experienced
blisters on her neck, rheumatoid arthritis, and neurological damage to
an eye as silicone moved throughout her body and deposited in her
armpits.
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For more information, please visit:
www.BreastImplantAwareness.org
www.BreastImplantInfo.org (Dr. Zuckerman's site)
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there are now over 10,000 signatures expressing very real and serious
concerns.
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