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 

Can EU identify EDC's Staring Them in the Face?

EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY
Brussels, 22th of July 2015 

Report on public consultation on defining criteria for identifyingendocrine disruptors in the context of the implementation of the Plant Protection Product Regulation and Biocidal Products Regulation

This consultation was different from other public consultations in that respondents were asked to provide data (for example methodologies used to select endocrine disrupting substances or to identify the socio-economic impact of identified endocrine disruptors). No specific questions were included that asked respondents’ opinions. This report cannot, therefore, provide quantitative information on the views held by different stakeholders. 

"The socio-economic impact of identified endocrine disruptors" limiting jobs for poisoning women and harming children! 

A risk-based approach for regulating endocrine disruptors was proposed by many respondents who identified themselves as farmers, private companies, industrial or trade organisations, or authorities in non-EU countries. Many respondents supported the use of the WHO/IPC 2002 definition as a starting point for defining an endocrine disruptor.  

That's a very interesting figure DG Health & Food Safety ... "Many Respondents" 

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.

PIP PUBLIC CONSULTATION

PUBLIC CONSULTATION on the preliminary opinion on the 'safety' of Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) Silicone Breast Implants (2013 update)

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the above-mentioned preliminary opinion following the Stakeholder Dialogue Procedures (Annex IV to the Rules of Procedures) of the Scientific Committees.

Background

In 2012, the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks, SCENIHR, was asked for an update of theOpinion on the safety of Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) Silicone Breast Implants.

This was mainly due to the fact that the data available on PIP silicone breast implants was limited at the time of the opinion

In its 2012 Opinion, the SCENIHR concluded that the evidence to date, indicating a health risk for women with PIP silicone breast implants, was not strong. However there was some concern regarding an increased inflammation from ruptured PIP silicone breast implants. It was not possible to make a general risk benefit statement at that time. It was also concluded that the risk benefit assessment needs to be based on a patient by patient basis by the aesthetic surgeon, bearing in mind the time since the implantation and the psychological state of the patient.

The aim of this new Opinion is to update the rapid opinion from 2012 based on additional data produced by and collected from the Member States and other international fora, such as the International Laboratory Testing Panel for PIP breast implants.

Please note that this preliminary Opinion has been approved for public consultation in view of gathering specific comments and suggestions on the scientific basis of the opinion, as well as any other scientific information regarding the questions addressed to enable scientific Committees to focus on issues which need to be further investigated.

Submission of comments

All interested parties are invited to submit their comments and proposals on the preliminary opinion to the following website.

The deadline for submission of comments is 3 January 2014.

NOTA BENE:

1. In line with the transparency principle outlined in the Rules of Procedures of the Scientific Committees, all submissions and the names of the submitters in response to this public consultation may be made available to the general public via SANCO's website.

2. Only comments submitted in accordance with the Rules of Procedures (Annex IV) will be taken into account.

3. For more information

PIP Implant Analysis

British 'experts' advising the government do not consider further testing necessary on fraudulent PIP implants 

For some unexplained motive, the health authorities in Britain have taken the view that nothing can be gained by conducting further testing on fraudulent PIP implants. Yet physicians, surgeons, independent experts and victims, particularly those reporting immune system, neurological and toxicity illness still want answers!

"We hope that as more facts about PIP Implants emerge,  there will be a greater level of understanding of our symptoms and a better standard of care and treatment from the medical professionals treating us."

If you have explanted PIP implants and you wish to participate in and contribute to studies on PIP implants, you will find all the details you need here!

There are two forms to complete.  The first is the PIP Implant Analysis form which you see below and can be completed online, the second is the Symptom Survey which you can download here:
http://pipactioncampaign.org/Symptom%20Survey%20web.pdf 

PIP Implants can be sent for analysis regardless of where you are in the world.  Regrettably as many as half a million women and their families have been affected globally by the PIP implant fraud.

Participating in studies on PIP implants will not provide all the answers but it gives all of us hope that more will be learned about the effects of contaminated silicones on our bodies for the future.

Dr Beretta, the senior chemist undertaking the analyses at Milan University, talks about his preliminary findings in some detail on PIP Action Campaign's social networking and Facebook pages.  Please feel free to join in the discussions and to learn more about PIP Implant Analysis at our Facebook Group:

Request to join the PIP Action Campaign group on Facebook or find us on the web at PIP Action Campaign and at PIPSLEAK


Send the completed Symptom Survey with your implants to the laboratory at Milan University at the address that you can find at the end of the PIP Implant Analysis form below.  

Get Your Serial Numbers OUT!

Some women still do not know they have fraudulent PIP implants so we have launched a new campaign  Get Your Serial Numbers Out!  

Click on the link or on the image below to learn more.

We want to encourage all women with silicone breast implants (SBIs) to check their implant details including their serial numbers and follow them up if necessary.

Please pass it on!

In the UK 47,000 women are thought to have been affected by the PIP global health fraud. As many as 100,000 women in Europe and 500,000 women worldwide have become victims of the crime, resulting from a massive Regulatory failure.

Even though the P.I.P. fraud was exposed in 2010 by French Police when they closed the manufacturing plant and arrested the company's directors, some British women have only just discovered they have fraudulent P.I.P. Breast Implants. 

In Britain, the Health & Safety Regulator (the MHRA) raised the alert about fraudulent P.I.P. implants two days before Christmas in 2011, twenty-one months later.

It was the responsibility of the operating hospital or clinic to notify patients if they had P.I.P implants. Unfortunately, the breast implant register had been scrapped by the MHRA five years earlier, clinics had closed-down or disappeared: two of Britain's top 2 providers restructured just to avoid their Duty of Care to their P.I.P. patients.

Relying on disreputable clinics and without an Implant Register, notifying all patients affected by P.I.P. has been an impossible task.  
So, just to be sure which silicone breast implants you have, and to be ready for the Breast Implant Register when it arrives:

Please Check Your Serial Numbers. 



Year/ Date of Surgery: .........................................................

Clinic: ..............................................................................

Surgeon: ...........................................................................

Clinic Phone Number: ..........................................................


Medical Device: High Risk Category III Silicone Breast Implants


Manufacturer : ...................................................................


LEFT

Size: .....................................  Model: ................................

Lot: ......................... Serial Number: ...................................


RIGHT

Size: .....................................  Model: ................................

Lot: ......................... Serial Number: ....................................


If you experience problems, symptoms or complications with your silicone breast implants, these should be notified to the MHRA using an Adverse Incident Report.  Your clinic or surgeon should do the same.  You will find the necessary forms on the link above and on the MHRA website.


Please make a note of the manufacturer's name, the year, the Lot and the unique serial numbers. Keep the original labels and your implant documents in a safe place, somewhere easy to find and easy to remember. Why not do it today?
If you are unable to confirm the Serial Numbers of your silicone breast implants & your clinic cannot or will not help, assume your implants are P.I.P. Please contact your GP or your clinic and begin your journey to removal today.

If you are worried about your implants, you will find help, support and information at: PIP Action Campaign

Harley Medical Group : PIP Patient Survey

Harley Medical Group Advertising after liquidation. 

HMG claim they have "setting the gold standard for 30 years"  

Top British doctors call for removal of every PIP breast implant

Women paying unacceptably high costs of CE & MHRA Regulatory Failures 

Calls for Government to remove all PIP breast implants Damning new research shows their shells are faulty putting women at risk

By JO MCFARLANE

PUBLISHED: 00:50, 7 April 2013 | UPDATED: 00:51, 7 April 2013

Mail on Sunday

"The doctors who conducted the research, including nanotechnology professor Alexander Seifalian and top plastic surgeon Professor Peter Butler, now say all PIPs should be removed... 

...The researchers, from the Royal Free Hospital in North London and University College London, tested the strength of the material in the PIPs... 

Senior surgeons last night said the study should be taken seriously amid claims that the NHS has been failing to address the needs of women."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305166/Top-doctors-removal-breast-implant-given-50-000-British-women.html#ixzz2Q6xsDE6r 

All PIP Implants must be REMOVED

PIP IMPLANT Case Notes

The British PIP IMPLANTS SCANDAL

Tens of thousands of British women have been affected by international health fraud and the British government response is a scandal!

British women are being denied access to diagnostics, care, treatment and on-going monitoring.  This should be of concern to everyone because health fraud is serious, people die!  It was the death of a French woman with ruptured PIP implants that sparked international concerns.

The scandal has exposed serious failings in all aspects of the cosmetic surgery industry.  It is also having a devastating impact of the health and well-being of all those affected, as many as 500,000 women worldwide!

The British policy characterised by the over-reliance on inadequate test data has led to thousands of women facing serious health issues with no access to healthcare.

Time for Change!

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TOXIC PIP IMPLANTS : WORLD HEALTH CRISIS

A Campaign for Change

Please Sign the Petition

Women everywhere with TOXIC PIP implants are suffering, they are being poisoned, they are frightened, anxious and in pain. We want our governments to recognise the Crisis and change policies which prevent access to the health care & treatment we so desperately need. The World Health Organisation/OMS has recognised the PIP Implant scandal as a Health Crisis. Health Crisis Funding is necessary to help the large numbers of women and children affected into urgent, healthcare, treatment and on-going monitoring.

Every Signature Counts. Thank you.

TOXIC PIP IMPLANTS - World Health Crisis

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