Fw: Implant Alert: Time Magazine ~ Bad News

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Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:42 AM

Subject: Implant Alert: Time Magazine ~ Bad News

> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101010507-107965,00.html

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> Bad News

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> IMPLANT ALERT

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> After years of controversy over whether silicone breast

> implants are linked to connective-tissue disorders--the latest consensus

> is that they aren't--scientists raise a new concern. A 13-year study

> suggests that women with implants may be three times as likely to die of

> lung cancer and twice as likely to die of brain cancer as other

> plastic-surgery patients. Researchers can't explain their findings, but

> they know that it doesn't make a difference whether the implants are made

> of silicone or saline.

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