Implant Controversy - Fact or Fiction 1995

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September 1, 1995

RE: Breast Implants

Mayo Study, June 16, 1994

Harvard Study, June 22, 1995

The New England Journal of Medicine

PRESS RELEASE

The IMPLANT CONTROVERSY

Fact or Fiction

You’ve just arrived at the airport, boarded the plane,

and fastened your seat belt. The pilot makes an

announcement that your flight has been delayed. You

sit patiently, waiting, wondering what is happening.

The pilot calls the control tower and tells them the

main engine has a strange ping in it. He wants to know

if he should abort the flight. Papers rustle, the air

traffic controller delays the flight, and the file

containing the service records of all of the 747’s is

pulled up on the computer screen. It flashes 10

crashes, 100 aborted flights. A search is done on

engines. In the history of this aircraft nothing can

be located under the search for strange ping, so you

are cleared for take-off.

The pilot taxi’s up the runway. The sound is louder,

he’s concerned, now even the passengers can hear it

and are becoming nervous. The pilot calls the control

tower, reports the strange ping again, and requests to

abort the flight.

The reply, there’s nothing wrong with that plane.

You’re imagining things, you’re watching too much

television, you’re under a lot of stress. When you

land in New York report for a physical and a

psychiatric examination.

As the plane gains altitude, the pilot knows there’s

something wrong. He shrugs his shoulders, he has an

excellent ground crew, surely they wouldn’t let him

leave if there were anything seriously wrong. As the

terrible sound mounts he tries to rationalize it out

of his mind. When they land both him and the plane

will get a check-up.

The plane reaches 25,000 feet, there is a deafening

noise, the sky lights up, the plane, pilot, the crew,

and passengers have made their final trip.

If only you had known, would you have boarded the

plane? If you had found out prior to take-off would

you have gotten off the plane? Should the search have

included rapping, tapping, knocking, thumping,

pounding, bumping, rumbling, rattling, and clinking?

Would the flight have been aborted then? How did the

other pilots describe this sound? Will the pilot’s

complaint be recorded for future reference? Should the

plane have been grounded until it was physically

examined? Should the manufacturer of the plane pay for

the investigation into the explosion and deaths of 380

people? Remember, you were one of the passengers, what

do you think?

Shouldn’t breast implant recipients receive the same

attention? Are doctors and/or nurses reviews of

patients’ charts and mailed questionnaires’ adequate

to determine the incidence of illness or adverse

effects from breast implants? Should we be looking at

all of the symptoms and diseases reportedly caused by

these products or just the diseases reported by less

than 20% of the recipients? Should these people be

physically examined by the researchers? Should milder

cases be excluded? Should atypical disease be

considered? Should all of the reported symptoms be

considered or just the ones doctors agreed with and

documented in the charts in the past? Should the funds

for this research come from the manufacturer’s? Do

corporate dollars spent to preserve financial windfall

buy biased results?

In the well publicized Mayo Study, June 16, 1994 and

Harvard Study, June 22, 1995 The New England Journal

of Medicine, none of the above referenced questions

were addressed.

Silicone Disease is devastating. It not only takes

away your life it destroys marriages, friendships,

companionship and spirits. Women and men suffering

from this disease, in many cases, cannot obtain

medical treatment as the medical community has

discounted the illness based on these erroneous

reports. They are left to an uncertain and painful

destiny. It is only a matter of time before the plane

explodes.

If this disease were contagious would you, the public,

demand answers?

We have suffered at the hands of manufacturers,

doctors, journalists, news broadcasters, and shallow

opinionated people long enough. It is time to get

serious. Go to the hardware store, look at the labels

on tile grout sealers and various other silicone

products, read the warnings, then tell me silicone is

safe. I could list hundreds of silicone product

labels, but one should be sufficient.

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DOW CORNING

888 Silicone joint sealant

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FRONT LABEL:

Tiny print at top: Before handling read product and

material safety data sheets for detailed use and

health information. (This does not come with the

product, nor was I given one when I purchased the

product.)

CAUTION! DIRECT CONTACT WITH UNCURED PRODUCT MAY

IRRITATE EYES SLIGHTLY * PROLONGED SKIN CONTACT MAY

IRRITATE * VAPOR OVEREXPOSURE MAY CAUSE DIZZINESS

* REPEATED SWALLOWING OF UNCURED PRODUCT MAY INJURE

LIVER, KIDNEYS BONE MARROW, IMMUNE SYSTEM AND TESTES

POSSIBLE BIRTH DEFECT HAZZARD

OVER EXPOSURE TO UNCURED PRODUCT MAY INJURE LIVER AND

KIDNEYS

BACK LABEL:

CAUTION Continued:

Avoid eye and skin contact. Do not handle contact

lenses with product on hands. Avoid breathing vapor.

Do not use in poorly ventilated spaces. Do not take

internally. IN CASE OF EYE CONTACT wipe off and flush

with water for 15 minutes. IN CASE OF SKIN CONTACT

wipe off and flush with water. If clothing becomes

contaminated resulting in skin contact, clean before

reuse. Obtain medical attention if irritation

develops. IN CASE OF VAPOR OVEREXPOSURE, remove to

fresh air. Obtain medical attention if effects

persist. IF swallowed, do not induce vomiting. Obtain

medical attention, if vomiting occurs keep head lower

than hips to reduce chance of inhaling liquid.

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Sounds like pretty scary stuff wouldn't you say? Go to

a doctor, hospital, or emergency room and tell them

you are suffering the effects of silicone

overexposure. Will you receive the proper medical

attention, locked up on the psychiatric ward, or

laughed out of the waiting room? What happens when you

can't get medical attention?

Why has no one reported the number of deaths known to

be directly caused from implants, not the surgery or

anesthesia, but the implants? At this time there are

79 documented deaths as a direct result of implants.

How many women died of the effects of silicone that

were never documented or diagnosed? The other night I

saw a documentary on how a tainted supply of

L-tryptophan caused 35 deaths, and they commented that

even one was too many. Do we not deserve the same

respect and attention? Are we guilty for trying to

look perfect? Did we wish this on ourselves? If I

bought a power saw or vacuum cleaner from Sears,

brought it home, plugged it in, and was electrocuted

due to faulty manufacturing, would I deserve it?

Before you discount the validity of our illness look

at the peer reviewed literature that verifies our

illness and let’s get serious about stopping the

continued wanton destruction of human lives in the

name of corporate greed and cover-up.

Written by, Lee Founder

cc:

The New England Journal of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Mayo Clinic

Brigham and Women's Hospital

All Media

Wayne Alford, Esquire

Dr.

Dr. Iham Karjoo

Dr. Aristo Vojdani

Dr. Nachman Brautbar

Dr. Hardt

Dr. Hamnesfahi

Dr. Inclan

Dr. Decker Frazer

Dr. Pat Kamish

Dr. Duffy

Dr. Vasey

Dr. Henry

Dr. Bernard Patten

Dr. Britta OstenmerAShoaib

Dr. Piers Blais

Judge Pointer

Dow Corning

Kessler, Commissioner FDA

Barbara Stellar, Consumer Specialist, FDA

D. Talcott, B8 ChE.

Marcia Meyer, FDA Center for Devices and Radiological

Health

Congressman Shays

Bill Clinton, President of the United States

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