Fw: BREAST IMPLANTS ARE THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

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Martha Murdock, Director

National Silicone Implant Foundation

Dallas, Texas Headquarters

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From: " sey (by way of ilena rose) " <fuchsmorrissey@...>

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Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 10:46 PM

Subject: BREAST IMPLANTS ARE THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

> IILENA, PLEASE POST TO ALL. LADIES PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN YOU READ THIS

STUDY

> BELOW THAT WAS POSTED ON THE MYELOMA LIST I AM ON: An adjuvant is a

> substance that can ENHANCE the immune response to a foreign material (such

> as a protein). REMEMBER: ENHANCE, ( " enhance " is the important " medical

word

> of art " chosen in this saying)... ENHANCE a foreign material (silicone)

such

> as a protein~ which protein excesses are common in many diseases,

PRIMARILY

> THOSE THAT STIMULATE THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, SUCH AS LUPUS, MULTIPLE MYELOMA/MM

> AND SIMILAR CONDITIONS...similar conditions like RA, MS AND

> SCLERODERMA/ " clustering " of autoimmunity besides lupus and myeloma. I feel

> that not alot with the exposure to breast implants will get myeloma only

> those with the genetic predispostion, BUT BREAST IMPLANTS WILL INDEED

> ENHANCE THE IMMUNE RESPONSE as we are ALL dealing with the total

ENHANCEMENT

> of ones immune response whether end result is " classic autoimmunity " or

" not

> classic autoimmunity " . I do see this as we are living it as my maternal

> grandmother who had very, very bad RA/ " clustering " of autoimmunity died

from

> myeloma. My mother died from myeloma June1994. They both were smokers,

took

> " hits " of a different trigger smoking: Aflatoxin/aspergillus flavus,

> Tobacco, Ammonia, The p-53 Tumor Suppressor Gene, which is cancer's

missing

> link. My children and I were exposed to breast implants. These children

took

> " hits " via the placental barrier through fetal cells in autoimmunity.

Breast

> feeding was extra " hits " . I have MS, asthma, a poorly defined CTD,

problems

> in the spine at L4-L5 and more. Our daughters have health concerns. Our 10

> yr old has scleroderma (scleroderma runs hand-in-hand with silica

exposure),

> a swallowing disorder and an " acral bone dysplasia " (silica binds the

bone).

> I will go further as I question MICROCHIMERISM/GVHD~FETAL CELLS IN

> AUTOIMMUNITY. Microchimerism which refers to " the presence of foreign

cells

> in one's body. So put microchimerism which is the presence of foreign

cells

> in one's body along with taking " hits " of foreign protein excesses

(silicone

> in this case) along with a genetic predisposition/ " clustering " of

> autoimmunity and a POSSIBLE " TWO HIT " THEORY...Then how many " hits " does

it

> take to cross the threshold to the chronic/defined disease? " Two hits " ,

> " five hits " , " ten hits " or more? AND what about HERVs, ALU and jumping

genes

> in this whole process? END RESULT, I feel will indeed be the enhancement

of

> the immune system, plain and simple! CAUSATION OF SILICONE is the

> ENHANCEMENT OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE! AND different triggers will produce

> different symptoms, sometime UNIQUE symptoms. Living this 24/7 in my own

> family. These researchers from Harvard as others need to look at the big

> picture of the ENHANCEMENT OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE. Which is the immune

> system only going through the proper changes given the environmental

> trigger/time factor of exposure which is ENHANCING the immune system

> totally. Because the enhancement the immune system goes out of control as

it

> was programmed in a different way, seeing what it was exposed to, in this

> case silicone breast implants! Researchers care to see what they wish to

> see...and the medical mind should not/CAN NOT be made up once and for all

> that breast implants are " safe " and have an " acceptable risk " . They are

not

> safe, nor have an acceptable risk IF one wishes to OBSERVE WELL with that

> open-mind which is indeed VITAl to medicine, science and research to

uphold

> itself to that higher standard of DO NO HARM. Breast implants ENHANCE the

> immune system. Take care, Fuchs-sey

> Fuchssey@...

>

>

> >From: " Kathleen Beymer " <kjbeymer@...>

> > " IMF List " <myeloma@...>, " MMA List "

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> >Subject: [MMA] No Link Seen Between

> >Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:14:08 -0800

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> >No Link Seen Between

> >MGUS and Breast Implants

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> >BOSTON--The purported association between breast implants and

> >monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance seems to

> >be fading.

> >

> > A Harvard team reported that the rate of MGUS was comparable

> >among 288 women who'd had or still had breast

> >implants and 288 women who'd never had implants-five vs. four

> >patients.

> >

> > It was the sixth study, though the first cohort study using

> >stored blood samples instead of medical records, to find no

> >association. In contrast, three case series and the National

> >Cancer Institute's registry, all reported in 1996, reported an

> >association.

> >

> > The nine with MGUS came from the 32,826 women in the

> >prospective Nurses' Health Study who provided 30 ml of blood in

> >1988 for future research. None of the nine had developed

> >multiple myeloma or other hematologic disease by 1996, reported

> >rheumatologist W. Karlson of Brigham and Women's and

> >olleagues in the March 26 Archives of Internal Medicine.

> >Eventually 24% of women with MGUS develop multiple myeloma,

> >macroglobulinemia, amyloidosis, or related diseases.

> >

> > Among the five women with implants who developed MGUS, three

> >had devices filled with silicone gel, though a separate analysis

> >showed no significant association between this kind of device

> >and MGUS. One woman had a saline implant and the other was unknown.

> >

> > The five women averaged eight years older than the four in the

> >control group with MGUS. The investigstors said this indicated

> >that implants do not cause MGUS at a younger than expected age.

> >Other reports found multiple myeloma developing at unusually

> >young ages among women with silicone breast implants.

> >

> >

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