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Kathynye@... wrote: From: Kathynye@...Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:10:34 EDTSubject: POST: #2 Request, Lesley, Paige, Rogene and Ayers :Other articlesKathynye@...Subj: Please Help Lesley to find Surgeons Skilled at Explantation Date: 8/18/2006 11:18:05 AM Eastern Standard Time From: ilena.rose@... redmountain77@... Dearest Lesley,Thank you so much for writing.With this reply, I am forwarding your request to our excellent support team to help you find a surgeon to properly remove your implants.I am particularly interested in your history with the cohesive gel implants ...

as you know ... they are being promoted internationally. I am still trying to find out what 'ingredients' in the implants makes them more cohesive ... more platinum? More silica? If anyone has this answer, please let me know. Please stay in good touch ... and if I can make a webpage with your story with the "new & improved" cohesives, that would be great. Do you know the manufacturer of your implant? Our very best to you,Ilena RosenthalDirector, Humatics Foundationwww.BreastImplantAwareness.orgOn 8/18/06, <redmountain77@...> wrote: Hi IlenaI like the website very much.Please help. I need to have my cohesive silicone gel implants of eight years removed. I am relocating from England to BC, Canada soon so I am wondering and hoping that you may know of an experienced surgeon skilled in explantation in BC who would give me the best good result. I have read the horror stories and now don't know where to start.I look forward to your replyLesley==========================================================Subj: From Paige ... Please Post ... friend with 40 year old implants Date: 8/9/2006 11:14:29 PM Eastern Standard Time From: ilena.rose@... ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Paige Lomax <plomax@...>Date: Aug 9, 2006 8:59 PM Subject: HOMEPAGE please post thisilena@...Dear Ileana, PLEASE POST:I just wanted to write to you and everyone who wrote in about 3 weeks ago for my friend that has 40 yr old silicone implants. I felt so much love and care from all of the letters I received and she did too. Thank you all so much. I gave the letters to her and to her Dr. a bunch of clinical information from the internet. She was ready for action!! She went yesterday to get her MRI w/ breast coil. Today they told her it was normal. Her husband seems supportive in whatever she wants to do. But it seems like from the way he

talks that the surgery is on the back burner for the time anyway. They were not sure what they want to do now. Thanks to the lady that wrote and said that her MRI was normal as well but she still had implants taken out that were bad. I would like to request that anyone else who has had the normal MRI with removal of bad implants to please write a letter like you are writing to her starting Dear Betty,…. Please use

this link and please do not HIT REPLY for this letter. PLomax@... On another note I have give much information to another friend of mine with Salines who has already called Dr. Kolb and is ready to get her 10 yr. Salines OUT! My friend with the Silicone really would like to stay in our State/ North Carolina to have hers removed. I did notice Dr. McDonough is in Asheville and does remove "enbloc". Has anyone used him before and can tell me about him. Has anyone else used anyone in North Carolina and could tell me good or bad about them. Has anyone used Dr. Madison in Aiken SC and could tell me about her. Again please use this link PLomax@... if you have a response. Thank you so much for your help before!!! I am praying for all of you!! I totally feel alot your pain but without the implants and all of the emotions that go along with that. I have the Fibromyalgia and CFIDS. Thank you, Paige Lomax PLomax@...

=============================================================From: saxony01@... Sent from the Internet (Details) Please ask your friends and family to send a message to the FDA that health is more important than enriching the breast implant industry! - Rogenehttp://www.nwhn.org/alerts/alerts_details.php?aid=67============================================================Subj: Let your voice be heard on breast implants MacBank pushing implant loans (2 articles) Date: 8/9/2006 12:45:56 PM Eastern Standard Time From: ilena.rose@... Sent from the Internet (Details) Thanks to Beth for these two articles. I am so happy to know that other groups are spreading the information on platinum and implants. Here is Keeling's work on this that the breast implant industry is trying so hard to discredit. www.BreastimplantAwareness.org/cando.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The second article is about Australian banks ... Here was one comment (feel free to add yours!)At sexpo in sydney last week models with fake boobs were paid

to walk around promoting getting new ones!!! There job was to talk to girls and boys about the benefits and the experience. Posted by: snoophound of sydney 12:31pm today~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~From: Beth <mustlovedogz@...>Subject: Let your voice be heard on breast implants http://www.star-gazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060809/LIFE06/608090307/1138 Let your voice be heard on breast implants By a McCulloch-Dewsrmdews@...Star-Gazette August 9, 2006 Silicone breast implants have long been the subject of debate regarding their impact on a woman's health.That debate is hot as ever as the Food and Drug Administration is deciding whether to approve silicone gel breast implants and is accepting comments from the public on the issue, says Pearson, Executive Director of the National Women's Health

Network, an independent FDA watchdog group started in 1975 and based in the District of Columbia .On its Web site, http://www.nwhn.org, the group has posted information on a new peer-reviewed study that shows that platinum in breast implants could be toxic for women and their babies. In light of these findings, Pearson says she is encouraging all women -- whether or not they have had breast implants of any type -- to submit their comments. The group's site has a link to the FDA's comment board for this specific topic. Since its

inception, Pearson says the group has worked to alert the public of issues that could affect their quality of life. "In the 1970s and '80s, we would use newsletters ... In the age of the Internet, it's not so hard, and people like us can get the word out." For more information, visit http://www.nwhn.org."With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die." ~Abraham Lincoln beth taylor www.breastimplantsupport.orgwww.toxicbreastimplants.org~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20036789-5007132,00.htmlMacBank pushing implant loansPLASTIC surgeons are being urged by Macquarie Bank to spruik its loans to women patients considering breast implants.Lobby groups yesterday accused the financial giant of "exploiting a vulnerable market" and warned doctors to steer clear. "I've got to say I find it pretty tasteless," said one consumer credit activist, who asked not to be named. The move is just the latest sign of the millionaire factory's never-ending quest to make a buck out of everyday life.Already it owns everything from Sydney airport to many of the world's biggest toll roads.Now the bank is joining the booming plastic surgery business.Australian Patient Finance, set up by Macquarie a year ago, approaches plastic surgeons telling them to advertise

its loans to patients who can't afford an operation. According to its website, APF offers loans up to $30,000 for "breast augmentation or reduction, liposuction, adominoplasty (tummy tuck), rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery) and surgical facelifts". The loans also apply for dental and laser vision surgery. But breast enlargements are by far Australia's most popular cosmetic surgery, with an estimated 20,000 procedures – worth $300 million – last year. That figure is tipped to surpass $400 million in 2006. Experts say the industry is growing so fast because of free publicity in shows such as Extreme Makeover.The Australian Medical Association said the Macquarie service set a new low for big business profiteering off the weak."The marketing of finance for this area is exploitation of a market, and a vulnerable market. I would want to protect my patients from being exploited in that manner," AMA ethics and medico-legal

committee chairwoman nna Capolingua said. Prominent Sydney plastic surgeon Eng-Peng Tan advertises APF on its website but a spokeswoman denied pushing the product on to patients."We don't encourage people to get anything on credit. What they've got to do is work out what they need and how to do it. We don't get involved in finance," she said. Other plastic surgeons contacted by The Daily Telegraph said they had been approached by unnamed "patient finance" companies but refused to be involved. APF head Berkman denied he and his team of "business development managers" were being too aggressive in spruiking their product. "It's simply a matter of giving them some brochures and a bit of information that they can pass on to patients," he said. ~~~~~~~~~~www.BreastImplantAwareness.org=============================================================Subj: REVISED: Dow Corning Claimants ~~ Letter/petition to Judge Hood ~~ Sign online, fax or mail Date: 8/8/2006 9:46:17 AM Eastern Standard Time From: ilena.rose@... Dow Corning Claimants ~~ Letter/petition to Judge Hood ~~ Sign online, fax or mail MESSAGE FROM SUSAN AYERS -- Dear friends,We are writing again to let you know two things about the message at http://www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/JudgeHood.htm (see revisions)(1) If you cannot send a fax, or mail a signature form to Judge Hood, you can send your information by email. Please be sure to give the information listed below, so we are able to submit it for you, otherwise we can't include it. Ultimately, you sending your true signature to Judge Hood by fax or mail is much better. If by email, send TO: hecate1@... SUBJECT: Electronic signature___________________________________________________Your "electronic signature" (your email address) --FIRST and LAST NAME --ADDRESS (# / street / city / state / zip) --(2) Signing on to this letter/petition will not hold up claims processing. As we understand, by reading newsletters and pleadings made by the Claimants' Advisory Committee, claims are currently being processed with this more harsh change to what we agreed upon when we voted on the Plan . Claims are being processed this very unfair way, even though CAC began submitting pleadings on this issue just about six months after the Plan became effective. As Judge Hood contemplates her decision, w e are able to send our

voice from the sidelines as we agree with CAC and add some perspectives, which have not been presented to Judge Hood. It is best for us to win this fight to stop this unfair change in processing right away, so CLAIMS CAN BE PROCESSED MUCH MORE QUICKLY UNDER MORE FAIR GUIDELINES. (This will include claims being processed more quickly for all those who were also in the Revised Settlement Program (RSP) because they've already been approved, and should "pass through" more readily instead of having the standard for claims changed on them and administered more harshly as well). Now it's easier than ever for you to stop in your tracks right now and send me your electronic signature, or better yet, send me an email and let us know that you have sent your own fax with handwritten signatures from you and your family. Best of Luck to Us All, Ayershecate1@...Contact person for letter/petitionP.S. We have received some OUTSTANDING LETTERS. If we may post what you write, please let us know!=============================================================Subj: Mycobacterium infection ... post breast implants / lung transplant Date: 8/8/2006 4:11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time From: ilena.rose@... Sent from the Internet (Details) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed & cmd=Retrieve & dopt=AbstractPlus & list_uids=16890122 & itool=pubmed_DocSum Mycobacterium abscessus Chest Wall and Pulmonary Infection in a Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant

Recipient. JL , Palmer SM . Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.Mycobacterial infections are increasingly recognized in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients before transplant; however, knowledge about the clinical significance or spectrum of infections observed with mycobacterial infections in lung transplant recipients is still evolving. Herein, we report a case of infection with Mycobacterium abscessus in a CF lung transplant recipient. Despite aggressive treatment before and peri-operatively with anti-mycobacterial therapy, the patient developed skin and soft tissue infection

of the incision and of bilateral breast implants, eventually leading to disseminated pulmonary infection and death. This report highlights the potential for M abscessus to cause post-transplant disease in CF patients undergoing lung transplant, despite peri-operative anti-mycobacterial therapy. Thus, pre-transplant colonization with M abscessus should be viewed as a strong relative, if not absolute, contraindication to lung transplantation. The combination of the virulent pre-transplant pathogen M abscessus and foreign bodies in the chest likely acted synergistically to contribute to the unfortunate outcome in this patient. PMID: 16890122 [PubMed - in

process]=============================================================Subj: Fibro Treatment Date: 8/15/2006 2:11:23 PM Eastern Standard Time From: ilena.rose@... Sent from the Internet (Details) http://www.fibromyalgiatreatment.com/GuaiProtocol.htmSomeone referred me to this site ... anyone have any experience, comments on this?Best from Ilenawww.BreastImplantAwareness.org============================================================