Fw: repost: RE:foreign body carcinogenesis wirh silicone implants

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From: " Kathi " <pureheart@...>

Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 6:10 PM

Subject: repost: RE:foreign body carcinogenesis wirh silicone implants

> Abstract G14 Foreign body carcinogenesis with silicone implants is

> associated with DNA strand breaks and p53 mutations

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> ........After 12 months, fibrosarcoma in situ developed in 100% of

> rats implanted with either silicone or cellulose.

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> This was the jewel in all of the abstracts. This is consistent with

> what the latest studies from the NCI/FDA showed in the women. Dow found

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> the sarcomas in rats

> and yet they denied it could happen in women.

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> Note that the rats were killed at 10 months. Rats only live a few years

>

> and they compare that to human years. At 10 months it would equate to

> somewhere in the vicinity of 15 to 20 years in humans. The last study

> looked at women who had the implants longer than 10 years, and they

> found the increase in cancers in the brain, lungs, stomach.

>

> Even some of the prior studies found increases in the lungs, vulva, and

> cervix. What is more interesting is that they were done by pro-implant

> people, with manufacturer PR reports proclaiming that implants didn't

> cause BREAST cancer. The other cancers were lost in the fine print.

> Brody (silicone moment -- I think it was him) was one of the ones

> doing 2 of those studies, and Berkle from Canada did the other. Berkle

> was fired was using false data in his study, but the study was not

> retracted.

>

> One point in all of this is that they all used new material. Wonder

> what happens with degrading silicone and ruptures? The study says it is

>

> from a foreign body and not necessarily the silicone. This would

> explain the

> brain, stomach, and other cancers. The low molecular weight silicone

> foreign bodies travel.

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> There are no links. What was the site? FDA?

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> Thanks,

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> Very interesting, I might also point out that in my own case I received

> silicone breast implants in 1987 (still have them in ) and in 1988 I had

> to

> have a hysterectomy because of cervical cancer. And I am not one of the

>

> people from the so called studies being done. I wonder how much would

> come

> to light if all of us who had silicone implants actually were questioned

> and

> followed up on?????

>

> Phyllis

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> I wish someone would follow up with me. I had mine (Silicone) in

> 1981.... out in 1992. The hell I've been through could put their 'so

> called studies' to shame. I come with the support of Test, Doctor's,

> Family and Friends. A loss of Job

> at IBM and Disability at the age of 42!

>

> Silicone Suckered

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