Last Updated Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:23:25 EDT CBC News WASHINGTON
"I don't want anybody else to suffer this way," Florida resident Susan Helman told the scientists as the hearings began.
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'I don't want anyone else to suffer this way,' Susan Helman of Florida said. Ms. Helman indicated that she suffered from headaches and nausea after silicone and gel-forming platinum catalyst leaked from her implants.
Brad Kurtzberg
Wired Reports
Susan Helman
KHOU - TV
"I've loaded myself up with toxic chemicals," says Keeling.
When her implants were removed 11 years ago they had ruptured.
``If you buy a Chevy and there are more than 1 percent of vehicles that have a problem, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recalls the vehicle,'' said Edward Melmed, a plastic surgeon in Dallas, in a telephone interview April 8. ``We have a medical device that may fail up to 50 percent of the time. And how do you recall implants in a woman?''
