Tara Tainton

This might be the last opportunity to take a stand and demand that government scientists do the research necessary before the FDA makes a decision to approve silicone gel implants..."

• If the FDA approves silicone breast implants, many young women will get them. Studies have found higher than expected levels of platinum salts in breast milk and urine of women with implants. If they breast feed, their babies could potentially be permanently damaged or chronically ill from exposure to toxic platinum salts.
   
• Platinum salts also could be especially dangerous for breast cancer survivors. Chemotherapy often includes platinum. If a breast cancer patient decides to get breast implants, she potentially would already be exposed to platinum, and then get additional exposure from her implants. Breast cancer patients already are more susceptible than other patients to implant ruptures and other complications. Unfortunately, the companies that are seeking FDA approval for silicone gel breast implants have conducted research on relatively few breast cancer patients.
   
• Implant makers and their consultants claim that the platinum in implants is safe, but have failed to study the platinum in the bodies of women with implants, or their breast milk, to determine if it is platinum salt. Platinum salt is a toxic form of platinum. These questions are too important to wait until after the FDA makes implants more available.
   
• Silicone gel breast implants have never been approved by the FDA, but last summer the FDA announced its plan to approve them if certain undisclosed conditions could be met. That plan is under scientific fire, because a new study published in the Journal of Analytical Chemistry found very high levels of a toxic form of platinum, called platinum salt, in the blood and breast milk of women with breast implants.
   

• Concerned consumer groups, including breast cancer support groups, have requested that the FDA delay approval of silicone breast implants until there is additional independent research on the health risks of platinum from silicone breast implants. One consumer group filed a formal petition to the FDA on this topic. Unfortunately, the FDA has hunkered down, claiming that there is no evidence that silicone breast implants expose women to dangerous levels of platinum -- without taking time to conduct additional research to review the latest study.

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Anonymous | 2009-12-18 18:49 michael g.b. 07/01/2006 12:21 AM it is a "sign of the times" that the "industry" would want to take the chance and put so many at a possible risk before sufficient studies are done to confirm ther safety of the "silicone implants". however, until such a time as the manufacturers of these DO grow up and demonstrate the safety of their use, individuals should simply choose to not take the risk as a personal decision. . . it is probably "idyllic thinking" but if the masses refused to select this "silicone option" the companies would certainly do the studies to prove to the consumers that their product is safe . . . it all boils down to "the money" . . . to profits. . . Tara, your Weary WebMistress 07/01/2006 03:43 AM Very good point, Michael. When it comes to self-improvement, however one sees fit for themselves without causing harm to others, to each, his own. But for me, placing anything unnatural in my body by invasive and permanent means is a very scary thing. Of course, there's always the argument that there can and never will be enough testing for these things. How can you really know the effects until generations have experimented with them? It's just like the birth control pill itself and all the variations of it. Unfortunately, when all of society offers few options for a real medical need (the pill) or presses an entire gender to conform to some standard (implants), everyone's in a hurry to grab the first thing on the market. :( Vasper Janik 07/15/2006 06:28 PM Not a fan of fake boobs. I like to see them swing in a pendulous motion when I am fucking rather than moving barely an inch...to be fair they can look nice under clothing but nothing beats a normal pair of jahingies in my book....and my book is full of nice titties.... Tara, your Pendulous WebMistress 07/15/2006 07:44 PM Wonderful to see a man with a preference for the real thing! :) rob Oliver 07/23/2006 01:07 AM Tara, The ant...

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