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Keeping Abreast
of Parasitic Implants
by Fintan Dunne, 16th October 2003
Editor www.SickofDoctors.com
An advisory panel to the Food and
Drug Administration has
just recommended that silicone gel-filled breast implants be reinstated
after having been banned 11 years ago on health concerns. Saline implants,
are already widely available. The FDA usually follows the advice of
these panels. Silicone breast implants are back.
The panel was made up of plastic-surgery experts including practicing
plastic surgeons. Are alarm bells ringing for you? One of those so-called
experts was University of Texas plastic surgeon Michael Miller, who
said afterwards: "The risks are well-defined and small. The patient
can decide."
But what if the patient is deciding based on false medical risk evaluations?
Implant manufacturer Inamed told the panel that the rupture rate of
its implants was 1.2% for women who had breast augmentation.
 Where
can you get the truth about breast implants and their impact on the
human body? Not from the manufacturers that make billions of dollars
selling these toxic bags of ego gratification. Not from the US congress,
and definitely not form the mainstream media.
Ilena
Rosenthal created and heads the largest breast implant support group
in the world. Their services to those afflicted by implant problems
are currently closed for lack of funding. She says her phone rings daily
and her email is overflowing with painful calls from women realizing
too late the web of deceit plastic surgeons and the silicone manufacturers
have woven.
The far too short, two day FDA hearing, heard from just such women.
Women like Susan Cunningham, now too sick to work, who told the panel
her body was racked with joint pain after getting silicone implants.
Women like Carolyn Wolf, who got silicone implants in 1971, following
a double mastectomy, and developed blisters on her neck, rheumatoid
arthritis and neurological damage to an eye, as silicone spread throughout
her body. Even today silicone still oozes from her nipples. She pleaded
with the panel: "We beg you, please protect the younger generation."
To no avail.
Are these just isolated incidents in an otherwise rosy picture? The
truth will shock you. The implant industry been engaging in the practice
of constructing deliberately false studies run by claimed independent
researchers, some of whom the industry simply buys and sell.
An outspoken critic of his own profession, Dr Joseph Mercola says studies
never cited by implant proponents tell a far different tale. Not an
over 90% plus success rate --but 90% failure. How has the industry managed
to paint a picture of implant safety that is the polar opposite of the
reality.
The big lie has been achieved by a brilliant, multi million dollar public
relations coup of enormous proportions. That PR lie has been exposed
by media watchdogssuch as PR Watch.
They found that among women who got implants for cosmetic reasons, nearly
21% needed a repeat operation. They found that for years, women have
been lulled into a false belief, that they had a 95% chance of being
rupture free. The contrary is true said the PR Watch report. Alarming,
indisputable evidence was released in October 2000, when the FDA published
one of the few objective studies which revealed that 69% of these women
had at least one ruptured implant, most without any knowledge of it,
in implants over an average of 17 years old. Other studies have revealed
an over 90% chance of rupture within 20 years.
An internal
memo by manufacturer Dow Corning --uncovered by anti-implant activists
from the 1990's-- had this sentence by Dow CEO Dan Hayes: "The issue
of cover-up is going well from a long-term perspective."
That cover-up has been orchestrated by the slickest public relations
consultancy in the business, Burson-Marsteller. The tactics have been
low and dirty. An internal memo by the firm wrote "Women (including
celebrities) will be trained and testimony will be written for them
to deliver before Congressional committees."
Another
internal document describes Burson-Marsteller's grassroots organizing
tactics: "Utilize a well-known celebrity who has breast implants for
reconstructive purposes to speak out on the benefits of them. Utilize
spokespeople drawn from women's cancer support groups in major markets
to defend implants by writing letters to the editor, participating in
media interviews, and communicating positive messages to women's groups
in their regions."
It has been a campaign so slick and so prolonged that not only has the
implant industry headed of litigation they once feared would bankrupt
them, but, emboldened has had the sheer gall to force the implants back
on the market. All hail the mighty PR machine.
Too late, reality has struck thousands of ill and disfigured women who
found their cherished breast implants costing them their insurance,
their health, their beauty, their vitality, their families, their careers,
and too often, their lives. The gel even crosses the placenta to affect
unborn fetuses to scar a next generation.
Truth is, implants are a big money earner for plastic surgeons and the
manufacturers. Almost a quarter of a million women had their breasts
enlarged last year -and the total is rising. But even those saline implants
far from safe. In the spring of 2000, when the FDA approved two saline
brands, the agency was already sitting on over 50,000
reports of serious adverse reactions from water-filled implants.
Today, shares in implant manufacturer Inamed, soard
23% as over three and a half million shares changed hands, driving
the closing price to $84, an all-time high. Oppenheimer analyst Juan
Noble, says Inamed will now: "be able to start cannibalizing their
own saline implants and make more money." Interesting choice of word
that: "cannibalizing"
As women implant activists have cautioned cautioned: "Women need
to opt
out of the consumer society image industry. Don't they just.
This culture has turned them into objects to be consumed by their own
egos, lusted after by infantile males and preyed opon by the profit
hungry body image industry.
A woman is a person --not a product. Accept yourself, be yourself and
for God's sake, take care of yourself. Because the breast implant industry
parasiting on women is nothing short of pure unadulterated evil.
Some parts of this report are culled from existing implant
activist material
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