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> April 27, 2001 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Women, beware: Before you get those

> breast implants, there are some new risks to be concerned with.

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> A study by the National Cancer Institute shows women who get breast

> implants may be at a higher risk for brain cancer and suicide. Researchers

> reviewed the medical records of nearly 13,500 women who received breast

> implants between 1960 and 1988 and compared them to a control group of

> nearly 4,000 women who received another type of plastic surgery (not

> implants).

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> Researchers found women with breast implants had more than double the risk

> of dying from brain cancer and were four times more likely to commit

> suicide than women without implants who had different cosmetic procedures.

> Researchers also found synthetically endowed women more three times as

> likely to die of respiratory diseases, such as lung cancer, than they're

> non-enhanced counterparts. However, researchers say there is a positive

> finding in their research. Cancers such as sarcoma and multiple myeloma

> and illnesses such as scleroderma have been linked to breast implants in

> the past but this study shows these diseases don't appear to be associated

> with implants.

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> Researchers acknowledge the results of this study may be related to higher

> smoking rates among women who get breast implants and say these could be

> merely chance findings. Esther Janowsky, M.D., from the University of

> North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says, " To further investigate whether or

> not breast implants are actually linked to increases in death due to brain

> cancer or suicide, one would have to mount another investigation that

> specifically looked to address those relationships. "

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> The results of the study are published in the May issue of Epidemiology.

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