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Health Complications from Breast Implant Surgery:

A Canadian Study with Implications for the U.S.

By Aleina Tweed, British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health

 

 

New Studies

Breast cancer in the previously augmented breast

 

A review of psychological outcomes and suicide in aesthetic breast augmentation

 

Message from S. Joyce Attis of January 28, 2007

On February 19, 20 and 21, 2007 in Toronto, Ontario Canada, Justice Winkler will hear a Motion for Certification as a Class Action for  Attis vs. HMQ (Her Majesty the Queen). This is the first of the pending cases in Canada.  Other actions will be more readily accepted as Class Proceedings once this case is successful.

Information will be found on our website. That site is presently being constructed.

Look for us at:

The exact location for the motion will be known by the 14th of February, 2007.  You can contact Legge and Legge (our lawyers)  at 416-923-1776.  Please wait until after February 14, 2007 to call them regarding location and times.

Please do not call them yet with inquiries about the action.  Once it is certified, there will be more information provided and there will be more than enough time for you to get your queries answered about your participating in this action.

We, at Breast Implant Line of Canada cannot provide additional information at this time.  We are not lawyers and would prefer that all queries be directed to the lawyers at the proper time.

To those of you who live in the Toronto Area, please make every attempt to be there on February 19, 20 and 21, 2007 to help us to help you, which will help all of us!!

Posted on 21/10/06

Health Canada approves use of silicone-gel breast implants

UNNATI GANDHI

Canadian women will no longer have to jump through licensing loopholes to get silicone-gel breast implants after the government lifted a 14-year moratorium on the product yesterday.But while many doctors and patients are elated by the news, others fear the implants are still dangerously unsafe, bringing the decades-old controversy full-circle.

 

BRAVO TO JOYCE ATTIS 

Health Canada approves use of silicone-gel breast implants ... her response below:

EXCERPT:
"This should have been done before they allowed them onto the market, [instead of] playing this game of roulette with women's lives," said Joyce Attis, president and founder of the Breast Implant Line of Canada and the lead plaintiff in a pending class-action lawsuit
against Health Canada.

"It takes years before these implants can make you sick. Yet the studies Health Canada has relied upon are not of a long enough duration . . . and they're allowing this poison back on the market."

In 1972, Ms. Attis had a cohesive silicone prosthetic inserted because her right breast had never developed. She was 21 at the time and she "just wanted to be able to wear clothes properly and have breasts of equal size."

But by the late 1970s, her implanted breast had hardened and she was suffering from excruciating rib and back pain. The doctors couldn't diagnose her, and one even inserted a steel rod into her spine to ease the chronic pain.

Ten years later, doctors discovered silicone under her breasts, and around her rib cage to her spine.

"They were scraping the silicone gel off," said Ms. Attis, 55, who now suffers from fibromyalgia, lupus syndrome and osteoporosis, and knows of many other women with implants suffering from adverse effects.