Dow funded 'study' -breast implants in no way related to cancer?

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Dow funded 'study' -breast implants in no way related to cancer?

JoAnn Guest

Jul 01, 2006 17:42 PDT

 

PLEASE TELL FDA THAT RESEARCH IS URGENTLY NEEDED ON TOXIC PLATINUM

SALTS IN

SILICONE BREAST IMPLANTS

 

How Our Civil Justice System Protects Consumers and Patients in Ways

the Regulatory System Does Not

 

Although the media is filled with the good news that breast implants

are in no way related to cancer, there are many of us that are very

skeptical about this Dow funded 'study.' In fact, over the last two

decades, all the Dow funded 'studies' have found 'no connection'

with implants and various diseases, while independent research has

come to very different conclusions. The plastic surgeons have

websites springing up throughout cyberspace advertising and

promoting their cash cow ... breast implants.

THE HISTORY OF SILICONE-GEL BREAST IMPLANTS

ON THE MARKET AND IN THE COURTS

 

(opens a pdf file ... very revealing report just published. May our

Good Lord protect all of those involved in the preparation and

presentation of this revealing work.)

 

 

http://www.humanticsfoundation.com/

 

Bravo to Dr. Zuckerman for her excellent presentation to the

Canadian Parliament last week. Click here for full text.

 

HBO has a great show this month called Plastic Disasters. Women from

our group were interviewed. To view HBO Schedule and info, please

 

 

Bravo to Huffington Post and the Spoof, Plastic Assets for being a

novel way to tell potential customers about the very real dangers of

breast implants.

 

Click here to see this Winner from the Contagious Festival.

 

Web site busts the breast-implant fantasy

 

 

Although the media is filled with the good news that breast implants

are in no way related to cancer, there are many of us that are very

skeptical about this Dow funded 'study.' In fact, over the last two

decades, all the Dow funded 'studies' have found 'no connection'

with implants and various diseases, while independent research has

come to very different conclusions. The plastic surgeons have

websites springing up throughout cyberspace advertising and

promoting their cash cow ... breast implants.

 

Please read Dr. Zuckerman's Breast Implant Study Results Reflect

Funding here.

 

Excerpt:

 

The new Dow-funded study, conducted in Sweden, found that Swedish

women

with breast implants were more than twice as likely to have lung

cancer as

women in the general Swedish population, but concluded that this was

" expected due to the high prevalence of smoking. " However, the

researchers

did not statistically control for smoking to determine if smoking

was in

fact the likely cause of lung cancer among these women, and the

researchers

did not mention that almost one-third of women with lung cancer never

smoked. The Dow-funded study also found a 30% increase in brain

cancer

among women with implants, but since that risk was not statistically

significant the authors conclude there is no problem.

 

Platinum From Breast Implants

Study implicates silicone implants as source of harmful platinum

species

Click logo below for full article.

 

 

 

April 9, 2006

 

HEALTH CENTRAL CENSORS ARTICLE

 

Article in HealthCentral 4/8/2006 , Silicone Implants Linked to High

Platinum Levels in Women: Study

 

ALERT: DEAN EDELL'S 'HEATHCENTRAL' SITE REMOVED THIS ARTICLE

ENTIRELY FROM THE WEBSITE. HE HAS LONG BEEN PART OF THE BREAST

IMPLANT INDUSTRY'S DISINFORMATION TEAM ON IMPLANTS, PUBLICLY

ADMITTING HE HOPED IMPLANTED WOMEN " NEVER GOT A CENT. "

 

Article in yesterday's Washington Post.

 

Please click here for an abstract of this new, peer reviewed

scientific study published in Analytical Chemistry

 

Please click here for full update from the indefatigable, Marlene

Keeling of CANDO on research on the platinum issue. Kudos to her.

 

 

 

 

Both US breast implant makers, Inamed and Mentor, have

received " approvable " letters from the FDA for their silicone gel

implants. We've been hearing from scores and scores of women already

ill & injured from previous versions of new & improved breast

implants.

 

If the FDA does approve them, they will be ignoring their own

scientists and yielding once again to industry propaganda and

pressure. The so-called 'conditions' that are required are expensive

and totally unenforceable, such as MRI's to detect rupture costing

up to $2,000.

 

Help us convince the FDA and Congress that they are making a fatal

error in rushing through this approval.

 

Please click here to ask the FDA not to Approve Silicone Breast

Implants While Mentor is Under a Criminal Investigation

 

It's still not too late.

 

With the sudden resignation {for Pharmaceutical Industry

connections} of FDA chair Lester Crawford, we still have a chance

for sanity to prevail. One of his last acts pre-resignation, was to

declare silicone gel implants, with hundreds of thousands of FDA Med

Watch Reports of complications, injuries, illnesses and

death, 'approvable.'

 

Our greatest wish is that as we begin this new year, that our

prayers are heard and sanity prevails ... on God's Green Earth & in

the Breast Implant Awareness Cause ... more here

 

" When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those

who do not know it,

 

but for the sake of defending those that do. " William Blake

 

February 26, 2006:

 

Midland News article on ongoing Dow Bankruptcy Saga

 

NOTES FROM ILENA: After over 10 years in bankruptcy protection, Dow

has paid less than a quarter of the claims, and these average under

$10,000 each. In most cases, this does not even cover the cost of

explantation ... borne for the most part out of the pockets of the

women.

 

EXCERPTS:

 

Claims administrator David Austern said the facility has paid around

57,000 claims, amounting to $565.5 million. This month, the facility

began reprogramming its computer system, a job expected to be

finished by April 15. The computer work, and testing it to make

certain it does what it's supposed to do, won't stop claims

payments " but it will absolutely slow them down, " Austern said. more

here ....

 

 

More news stories here ...

 

February 13, 2006:

 

MyDNA: Implants: Safe?

 

Please read Beth Taylor's new website sharing her ordeal with

implants.

 

Click here for our Daily Page with a history of recent news

stories ... if you have more to add, please send email here.

 

 

 

Is breastfeeding with breast implants a real concern?

 

Breast Surgery Likely to Cause Breastfeeding Problems

 

New Studies Reveal High Platinum Levels in Children and Mothers with

breast implants.

 

A New York Daily News article included a misquote from a " wee hours "

interview given by Sally Kirkland.

 

In it she expressed her very deep and real concerns for women with

breast implants who breastfeed their babies.

 

The real issue here ... are breast implants " safe " for women and

their offspring?

 

For information on extremely high platinum levels being found in

implanted women and their offspring, please

 

 

 

Sally Kirkland and The Humantics Foundation firmly believe that it

would be a travesty if the FDA declares Mentor {or Inamed} silicone

gel implants " safe. "

 

The Mentor " studies " done to date have removed the data from women

who took their explants out. One " study " of theirs had only 5%

follow-up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visit Sally's Website

 

National Enquirer on Sally's Explant

 

Sally Kirkland and Mary McDonough In the Know.org

 

Sally interviewed in Soap Digest

 

Sally & Kathy Nye at Rally in front of Judge Pointer's Court in

April, 1999 at SOBB Rally

 

Candid Interview on Sally in Moxie Magazine

 

 

 

Here is a photo of one of our beloved support group member's

explanted " new & improved " silicone gel implants of the time. To

read her story, click the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

Long time Dutch advocate, Marlou Boots

 

with a small part of her collection of " explants. "

 

We are in the process of creating from Marlou's work of so many

years, much information she compiled written in Dutch (Nederlands).

Several wonderful people are working together to make this happen.

Check back soon for these archives.

 

Breast Augmentation: A Younger Generation Seeks Perfection

 

A Student interview with many perceptive insights.

 

Here is a photo of one of our beloved support group member's

explanted " new & improved " silicone gel implants of the time. To

read her story, click the photo.

 

 

 

Platinum concentrations high for women & their children with breast

implants

 

New! For information on platinum testing,

 

Teens Getting Breast Implants for Graduation ... our Foundation

mentioned and our members interviewed for this Womensenews.org

article.

 

 

 

Ilena Rosenthal, Director

 

We are dedicated to raising awareness to the true and serious risks

of breast implants and other silicone products.

 

What began as a small research project for a friend with tumors and

cysts around her 20 year old saline implants in August, 1995, has

become an amazing adventure for me beyond anything I could have

imagined.

 

Speaking out on the true dangers of a product so desirable and yet

so potentially harmful, sharing the too real stories of women who

made the fateful decision to have breast implants, almost

immediately made me the target of an unrelenting and incredibly

vicious 10 year Defamation Campaign which continues to date.

 

My belief is that it is quite related to these multi-billion dollar:

 

Inamed and Mentor wanting safety " approval " from the FDA for their

very 'unsafe' silicone gel breast implants.

 

Dow Corning wanting to come out of their 10 year bankruptcy with a

clean and benevolent " image. "

 

The Junk Science Campaign ... an gargantuan network of industry

funded and backed:

'think tanks,'

front groups

'Astroturf' Grassroots groups

Corporate Lobbyists

Vast All Medium Networks

(Dow's PR plan from 1991 included being a part of what evolved to

the Junk Science / Quackwatch Propaganda Campaign / Webring) more on

this soon

The manufacturers and Plastic Surgeon's PR campaigns are

legendary ... funding groups like the ACSH and CEI etc. ... who use

every medium to push their viewpoint ... including suing activists

like myself. For details of their high profile, internet libel suit

against me and several others ,visit here.

 

For wonderful articles explaining the Public Relations Wars against

activists such as myself,

 

For great links to studies and related websites,

 

 

Dr. Edward Melmed holding up a disintegrated breast implant at the

FDA Silicone Gel Hearings in October, 2004.

 

Sherrill Sellman, author of Hormone Heresy, Interviews Ilena on

breast implants.

 

 

 

In November, 1995, I created the only Usenet Newsgroup,

alt.support.breast-implant, to provide a place for support and a way

for women and their families to connect. I obviously got in the way

of the Silicone and Plastic Surgery Industries and their Public

Relations Machine well greased by silicone dollars. Nothing was too

personal nor too untrue for Mine Enemies to post or email about me.

Details of this are here.

 

In early 2001, just days after my new marriage, I was made aware

that I was named in a high profile Cyber-Libel Suit by the ultra sue

happy, so-called " Quackbusters. " They accused me of being in

conspiracy with people I had never even met, and libeling someone I

didn't know existed.

 

In August, 2001, with thanks to the First Amendment which guarantees

Freedom of Speech, and my wonderful attorney Mark Goldowitz, of the

California Anti-Slapp Project, we were successful in our defense

against them. The case was a classic SLAPP suit ... designed to

bankrupt and silence critics and advocates and activists such as

myself. The court documents, Judge Richmond's 27 page Opinion, and

the press we've received are detailed here.

 

On Appeal, both plaintiffs, Stephen Barrett, head of the so-

called " Quackwatch " and the " Healthfraud " groups, and attorney

Christopher Grell, completely lost to me. Regarding plaintiff Terry

Polevoy, there was one comment I re-posted about him, that the

Appeals Court deemed " potentially libelous. " Because re-posting

material on the internet affects millions of users, upon our

request, The Supreme Court of California is hearing our case.

Details are here.

 

An enormous benefit of these high profile, enormously expensive and

painful lawsuits, has been to expand the audience to my message ~

breast implants can and do cause serious injuries and illnesses to

untold thousands of women. To visit related websites, medical,

legal, and several created by survivors of their breast implant

related problems,

 

We respectfully dedicate this website to the untold thousands of

women harmed by not only their breast implants, but further by the

silicone manufacturers and their insidious Public Relations

campaigns ... with includes embedding their lobbyists and PR staff

amongst the support system.

 

We dedicate it also, to The First Amendment and Freedom of Speech

for all.

 

JoAnn Guest

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