"I just came to the conclusion there is no such thing as a safe silicone breast implants," Nye said in a telephone interview Monday night. "Until they can prove they are safe, they should be kept off the market."
Marti Jacobs - Sybil Goldrich - Kathy Nye
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"I'm 23 years old and I'm in bed most days almost all day," says Shannon Scott of Lakeside, Calif., who developed severely painful scar tissue a year after receiving her 2002 breast implants. Uninsured and on disability, she says she cannot afford to have them removed - and she will tell the FDA committee that her surgeon never reported her complaints so that researchers could properly count side effects in implant studies.
Anne Stansell - Shannon Scott
Dr Jane Zones
Athens Banner-Herald , GA - Apr 12, 2005
... to see that my health is much more important than my breast size," said a tearful Karen Antolick of Columbus, Miss.
Virginia Taylor- Karen Antolick - Becky Miles
"These conditions are unenforceable," said Sybil Goldrich, a breast cancer survivor who went through four sets of broken implants in the 1980s. "Who’s going to pay for that MRI?"
"Choice?" asked Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, who helped coordinate the group. "The choice is to be sick."
New York Times
“I'm not a fan of plastic surgery, but that's really up to the patients. Our real concern is, is it safe or is it dangerous,” said Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women. “NOW wouldn't be involved unless we thought these implants were dangerous.”
Gandy is worried that the FDA will be pressured to approve the implants this time.“There's billions of dollars to be made on these silicone implants,” she said. “That's why there's so much pressure on the FDA. What we fear is politics will trump science.”
By ALAN BAVLEY
The Kansas City Star
"The FDA will put hundreds of thousands of women at risk for potentially devastating long-term consequences and high rates of complications if they allow politics and profits to trump science," said Gandy....We must stop this cycle of negligent behavior." Silicone gel-filled breast implants were taken off the market in 1992 after complaints emerged from patients about ruptures, leakages and a variety of illnesses. Since then the courts have recognized their harm to women's health in a $2.35 billion class action settlement - one of the largest in U.S. history.
Interns from the National Organization of Women
Marlene Miller
Testimony Read to FDA Panel
Karen "SnowDove"
Testimony Read to FDA Panel
Some of the testimonies of women who could not attend were read to the FDA Panel
After arriving home I was interviewed by Channel 8 News, Lancaster PA. I was on the 11 o'clock news.
