They knew in 1989 That Implants May Pose Risk Of Later Harm

Science : New York Times 1989

Data Suggest That Implants May Pose Risk Of Later Harm

By SANDRA BLAKESLEE

Published: July 25, 1989

The following quote comes from an article published in the Science section of the New York Times in 1989 when Science looked very different to the "FAKE" science surrounding breast implants today. 

Ruptured PIP breast implants

"...When a material is implanted, it sits in a protein-rich bath found throughout body tissues. Immediately, proteins begin sticking to the surface of the device and, after several hours, it is coated in a mixture of proteins. Depending on the type of material, physical interactions involving charged particles and magnetic fields occur between the implant's surface and the proteins. The interaction is sufficiently energetic to alter the shape of proteins sticking to the implant, so that the proteins expose binding sites that attract other circulating proteins designed to recognize trouble.

One set of circulating proteins initiates blood clots and covers the implant with thick layers of scar tissue called fibrin. 

Over a period of years, according to the accumulating evidence, the body's reaction to an implant can cause significant health problems in some patients.

Chronic inflammation, researchers say, can literally eat away bone. Some implant recipients suffer chronic, intermittent low-grade fevers. Some people seem highly tolerant of their implants but then experience flare ups years later. 

Implants can also become infected with bacteria many years after surgery. Dental surgery, for instance, can release bacteria that end up on the implant, causing an abcess-like condition. The failure of artificial hearts has been linked to chronic infections in most of the patients who received them. 

Problems With Breast Implants 

Many women who receive breast implants develop hard lumps, the result of scarring, that have to be cracked by hand. The silicone gel used in implants sometimes leaks, migrating to lymph nodes and other tissues.

Doctors also warn that is it extremely difficult to detect cancer in women with breast implants because the implant obscures small tumors. Two studies have found that when women with implants develop cancer, their prognosis is worse than women without implants, possibly because their tumors were not detected as early as would have been possible without the implant.

At the same time, a system of 18 circulating proteins, called complement, is activated in an acute inflammatory response to the surgery. The implant area gets red, hot, swollen and painful. Macrophages, or scavenger cells, ''graze'' on the fibrin coated implant, producing peroxide and other destructive forms of oxygen. Eventually the macrophages communicate with and activate other specialized proteins involved in inflammation and immunity. "...

Read the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/25/science/data-suggest-that-implants-may-pose-risk-of-later-harm.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=0

Reporting Adverse Events Linked to Your Implants

Adverse event reporting is supposed to help the health & safety regulators identify potential problems. Not enough reports were being made all the time PIP were being used. In the UK the MHRA say they have been and will continue to monitor adverse event reports from PIP women. Most women have no idea they are able to report adverse events linked with their implants. But if we dont report our bleeds, ruptures, our lymph node surgeries and symptoms the MHRA and the government will continue to ignore us and our symptoms. 

If you have experienced an adverse effect you associate with your PIP implants, please report them and ask your GP and/or surgeon to do the same. 

Lets do it everyone! Report Yours!  ♡

♥ Together we can make a difference!

In the UK Report Yours to MHRA using this link

https://www.gov.uk/report-problem-medicine-medical-device

In France report adverse events to ANSM

In Australia report adverse events to TGA
https://apps.tga.gov.au/prod/mdir/udir03.aspx

In Germany report adverse events to Bfarm

In the USA report adverse events to FDA

In Sweden report adverse events to MPA

Please refer to your Medical Devices Regulatory authority if your country is not shown here.

Dear Emily❊

“More than 100,000 women and their families in the European Union have been affected by the PIP fraud,

I am one of these women, this is my story...”

PIP Action Campaign made a complaint to the EU Ombudsman regarding the treatment of the women affected by PIP implants. It is clear that the European Commission is not responding to the PIP crisis with honesty, credible science or compassion.

We are encouraging all women affected by PIP implants to write to Emily O’Reilly the EU Ombudsman with details of their own personal stories and experiences of PIP.

We want to let the authorities know the extent to which the current policy has added to the stress and horror of PIP for each and every one of us.

We would like everyone affected to take part and add their voice. Of course, the more women who write the better.

We know that behind every PIP implant there is a broken heart. This is why each “Dear Emily” letter will be a painful, emotional and a courageous act.

But we hope it will make a difference Dear Emily.

Lets try it and see!
Full details of PIP Action Campaign’s complaint to the Ombudsman, reference 174/2015/FOR, can be found on the Ombudsman website. In the final decision Emily O’Reilly stated “The Commission should continue to evaluate new scientific data relating to the safety of PIP implants." And that’s what we want!

http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/cases/decision.faces/en/61195/html.bookmark

To contact Dear Emily, the EU Ombudsman, use the contact form on the Ombudsman website. 

You can type into the form or you can attach a file.
Find the Contact form here:
http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/shortcuts/contacts.faces

You will also find web links to the Contact Form on all PIP Action Campaign & PIPSLEAK social networks.

If you have been affected by the PIP fraud you are invited to take part.

What? Chemicals in Implants? Are they SAFE?

What chemicals & what manufacturing procedures were used by PIP in manufacturing fraudulent implants? ANYONE KNOW?

Doctor Brawer in the USA says:

The Australian Regulator (TGA) did some tests on PIP

From TGA Australia

TGA on Cyclic Siloxanes D4, D5, D6

Presence of D4, D5 and D6 siloxanes
AFSSAPS noted that some batches of unauthorised gels contained higher amounts of small silicone molecules (called low molecular weight siloxanes) than the authorised gel. Thus, the TGA is testing the gels to determine the presence of D4, D5 and D6 siloxanes. Test results from GC-MS analyses indicate D4 is present in the gels of PIP breast implants at between 0 and 261ppm, with a median of 136ppm. D5 is present between 0-710ppm, with a median of 434ppm. D5 is present between 0 and 1005, with a median of 470ppm. There does not seem to be any relationship between the year of manufacture of the gel and the presence of D4, D5 and D6 siloxanes. These values could change with the testing of further samples.
Information provided by the suppliers of the raw materials, which were used to produce the gel used in PIP breast implants, together with more recent detailed information provided to the TGA by AFSSAPS, does suggest that the TGA findings are a reasonable estimate of the content of these siloxanes.

http://www.tga.gov.au/alert/pip-breast-implants-tga-update-2-april-2012

The SCENIHR report reproduced this table showing the concentrations of D4, D5 and D6

Published in SCENIHR 

Breast Implants Will Now Carry Cancer Warning In France

Breast Implants Will Now Carry Cancer Warning In France

Following France’s National Cancer Institute finding a “clearly established link” between breast implants and a specific type of cancer, the country will now order all breast implants to come with a cancer warning. This announcement came after 18 cases of anaplastic large cell lymphoma were directly linked to women with silicone breast implants since 2011.

All PIP Implants must be REMOVED

A Personal Account of a Health Fraud

Wear Something Yellow 7 December 2012

Please Join in and support this international social networking event to 

raise awareness of the health issues facing all those with toxic PIP Implants.

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SHOCKING DOUBLE PIP RUPTURES

"During the surgery, Mr Richards finds one PIP implant to be severely ruptured. It had been detected as a rupture, but it was split into three, with the silicone within physically falling out of the implant upon removal - making it one of the worst splits we have ever found in any of our PIP replacement patients.

The other implant had a small rupture, which would have steadily become worse had it not been replaced.

Mr Richards looks at the batch numbers of the PIPs and analyses them after the surgery, looking in depth at the rupture points of the implants"

http://www.aurora-clinics.co.uk/news/pip-breast-implants-news-flash.html

Dramatic rise in PIP breast implant ruptures in Australia

According to a report 

By Daniel Piotrowski

From: news.com.au

October 11, 2012 12:00AM

Huge rise in PIP breast implants rupturing in Aussie women

The numbers: More than 6000 Aussie women have PIP implants

"Systemic failure": Senator says ... medicines watchdog had PIP crisis

“THE number of breast implants rupturing has soared this year, fuelling urgent calls for a national register for women to log their surgeries.A staggering 429 breast implants produced by French company PIP, have ruptured between January and September this year, according to new figures from the medicines watchdog, the Therapeutic Goods Administration TGA.This number rose from just 37 recorded at the start of the year.In January, the TGA said it would not call for the more than 6000 Aussie women who have PIP implants to have them removed, despite the French Government recommending all French women have them taken out.At the time the TGA said they had received only 37 indications of rupture and this was “well within the expected rupture rate for silicone breast implants.”But independent Senator Nick Xenophon said the alarming new figures were proof the Government must take action.”

Read More: via Dramatic rise in PIP breast implant ruptures in Australia | News.com.au.

PIPSLEAK

The PIP Implant scandal has had a devastating impact on as many as 400,000 women and their families worldwide.  

In Britain alone there are in excess of 47,000 victims.

On more than three occasions the Government has taken action to minimise the very serious concerns of those affected by publishing hasty and misleading reports about the dangers of PIP implants.

What's the real story?  Find out at PIPSLEAK 

PIP IMPLANTS? - REPORT YOURS!

If you haven,t already completed an Incident Report for the MHRA about your PIP implants now is the time to do so! Anytime between now and the 18 September 2012 would be best. This is currently the only way to make a report for the record and to show British Authorities how much and how many of us have been affected by fraudulent PIP implants. Get your serial numbers out and report away ... do this for you and for all those who have been affected. ♥ Make your Incident Report Here: http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Safetyinformation/Reportingsafetyproblems/Devices/index.htm

PIPSLEAK

T O X I C 

Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane D4

Reprotoxic Category 2 Hazard statement H361f*** 

Suspected of damaging fertility.

P I P S L E A K

TOXIC PIP IMPLANTS

"Analyses of the silicone contained in PIP breast implants indicates that the material does not pose a long-term risk to human health," explained Susanne Ludgate, clinical director of MHRA. "None of the chemicals listed will cause harm at the levels found within PIP breast implants and many are used routinely in various consumer products." 21 August 2012

It is true that a few shampoos do contain octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) and decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5) but they are environmental toxins mostly found in industrial waste and slurry!

The Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety SCCS published an opinion 22 June 2010 on

octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (Cyclotetrasiloxane D4) and decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5)

"The SCCS is of the opinion that cyclomethicone (D4, D5) does not pose a risk for human health when used in cosmetic products. Other uses were not considered in this risk assessment." and "noted that D4 is classified as a reprotoxic substance, category 3 [ECB 2006]."

Who knew?

The French Regulator Afssaps knew and informed international regulators. It's why French women are having TOXIC PIP implants removed. The TGA the Australian Medical Devices regulator also knew.

Who else?

The European Parliament : Adopted texts published 4 days before Keogh's Expert Group Final Report...

"Calls on the Commission to require adequate toxicological assessments of all medical devices, and to propose that the use of substances that are carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction (category 1A or 1B) be phased out, unless no substitutes are available;"

The British Government will continue to poison us ...

TIME TO STAND UP AND DEFEND YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS !

GAME ON

One good French Lawyer...

French Avocat, Laurent Gaudon is, one of 180 Lawyers, making a case in France against Jean Claude Mas and the PIP company.

In March 2010, after twenty years of amassing a fortune by producing adulterated breast implants, Jean-Claude Mas was forced to close his company Poly Implant Prosthesis (PIP). 

Released from Bail on Monday 29th Ocober 2012 pending trial in 2013, Mas made fraudulent claims about the qualities of the product, produced false advertising and endangered the lives of others.  Indicted on dozens of charges, ranging from poisoning, aggravated deception through tax evasion and abuse of social goods, Mas has managed to be declared insolvent, to hide and protect his fortune. He believes he can hide behind this supposed insolvency to avoid compensating his victims.

Some 4,600 victims are already involved in the class action, including British women.

For many women no legal help is available, in Britain the Government has deemed this a civil rather than criminal issue.  Mas was arrested by Interpol, there has been a police investigation in France where the legal process is already set in motion.  

We want JUSTICE... 

Details of the French Action, in English, can be found here: 

http://www.laurentgaudon-avocat.fr/on-en-parle/compensation-for-victimss-pip-in-europe/#.T-1ee4D7SJo.blogger

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