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Women are clearly worried -- and angry. Sheila Swanson, 49, of Saratoga, Calif., had implants inserted three years ago after a double mastectomy for breast cancer. Now she says, "I'm frightened. At this point, emotionally, I don't know how I could take another operation." Cindy Pearson, of the National Women's Health Network in Washington, has been pushing the FDA to act on this issue since 1983, and she is livid: "They've allowed over half a million women to get into this horrible quandary because they didn't order long-term studies earlier. If this were heart valves...
...love for only two years, but that was long enough to give rise to a rumor more virulent than the Asian flu that she was racing around Manhattan to fertility specialists trying to get pregnant. The sad truth is that she was consulting cancer doctors who saw her through breast surgery for a malignant tumor...
Last week's FDA decision sharply reduces the options for women seeking to augment or rebuild their breasts. Not only were silicone-gel devices easy to insert but their look and feel best approximated the real thing. For 90% of women, they were the method of choice. While implants inflated with salt water are still available and considered safe (if they leak, the saline does no harm), they have drawbacks. They can shift as a woman moves, and the water may settle into the lower portion of the breast, stretching and tightening the skin. They are not recommended for thin...
...second alternative is surgical: rebuilding the breast with tissue taken from the stomach or buttocks. But this involves a lengthy and costly operation and is appropriate only for women who have usable tissue to spare...
MEDICINE The FDA clamps down on breast implants...