Fw: Bravo Israeli Parliament ... demands ban on silicon breast implants

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From: " ilena rose " <ilena2000@...>

Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:00 PM

Subject: Bravo Israeli Parliament ... demands ban on silicon breast implants

> Note from Ilena: Some of the saline women may wish to write this author

with

> your experiences too.

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> http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article & articleID=4039

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> Knesset committee demands ban on silicon breast implants

>

> MKs discuss problem following many complaints of women who suffered damage

> after leaks. In Israel, silicon is still used despite newer and safer

> method.

>

> Yehuda Golan

>

> The Knesset's Welfare and Employment Committee on Wednesday demanded of

the

> Health Ministry to prohibit the use of silicon breast implants, due to

> suspicion that they cause serious and irrevocable physical damage. The

> special meeting was initiated by MK Orit Noked (Labor) following

complaints

> from many women who suffered complications and severe deterioration in

their

> health after they had breast implants which began to leak silicon into

other

> body organs.

>

> The MKs heard a chilling account of one woman who underwent the operation

in

> 1983 after a mastectomy. She presented the committee members with her

> grueling experience: " There are moments when I feel I'm dying. From the

> first month, I felt chest pain. In 1996 began the dizzy spells, fainting

and

> numbness in the left part of my body. In March 2002, the symptoms worsened

> and I began to feel nausea, pain along my left arm and I had trouble

> swallowing. I also felt my vision was blurred. Sometimes I had

constipation

> and crotch inflammation " .

>

> The women added, " There came a time when I could barely get myself out of

> bed. After noticing a lump on my neck I underwent an MRI that confirmed

> silicon had penetrated my chest, armpits and the lower neck. The doctors

> told me they would not be able to remove the lump because it was too close

> to blood vessels " .

>

> The case against implants was presented to the lawmakers by the " One in

Nine

> Foundation - Women for Breast Cancer Victims " . They told the committee

that

> the use of silicon was prohibited in the US in 1992 following multiple

cases

> of burst implants. Professor Yehuda Sheinfeld of the Sheba Medical Center

in

> Tel-Aviv, said, " Professional literature is replete with reports of some

70

> diseases that are attributed to silicon implants, especially skin

> sclerosis " .

>

> In spite of the chilling testimonies of women in Israel, breast implants

are

> still used even though western countries have already shifted to a method

of

> physiological water implants that do not inflict damage to the body if

they

> leak.

>

>

>

> (2004-03-03 20:57:52.0)

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> For more info on the very real risks of breast implants, please visit:

>

> www.BreastImplantAwareness.org

>

> www.BreastImplantInfo.org (Dr. Zuckerman's site)

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