Long-Term Effects of Breast Implants
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So Dow Corning, while protesting its innocence, is willing to cough up a $6,666 “quick-fix” payoff as a part of its proposed $2-billion breast implant settlement (“Dow Corning Makes New Implant Offer,” Dec. 3). Hogwash!
In view of my own 20-year “silicone journey from Hell,” encompassing loss of career and relationships while suffering debilitating pain, multiple surgeries, hospitalizations and myriad autoimmune, neurological and systemic dysfunctions that cost upward of half a million dollars, Dow’s generosity is “overwhelming”!
Breast implants were a medical-manufacturing mistake and the decision to place an inert object (silicone) into a large chemical factory (the human body) for profit without “long-term” testing was totally irresponsible, but to continue the practice while denying the obvious results in inhumane and criminal. So much for ethics!
DERVA J. SNIDER
San Juan Capistrano
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