Breast Implants Linked to
Systemic Symptoms, Autoimmune and Cancers
After seven years of our activism, on October 27, 2021 the FDA issued orders restricting the sales and distribution of breast implants to ensure patients are provided risk information including a black box warning and checklist for breast implants (already categorized as a Class III medical device which are known to have a high risk to users) to warn women of the negative health problems which hundreds of thousands of women are reporting. Here is the FDA’s statement acknowledging systemic symptoms from breast implants which this website listed and coined as “breast implant illness” in 2013. Over the years, several kinds of breast implants have been removed from the market for failure or for being associated with BIA-ALCL which is a cancer of the immune system. Recently the the FDA issued another statement that various cancers are found in the capsule tissue that surrounds implants. Check for breast implant recalls here: FDA Medical Device Recalls.
On September 2018 the largest study ever published of silicone breast implants shows silicone breast implants are associated with an increased risk of autoimmune diseases such as Sjogren’s syndrome, Scleroderma, Rheumatoid Arthritis, stillbirths and melanoma cancers. Additionally, another study published October 2018 found an association between silicone breast implants and a higher likelihood of being diagnosed with various autoimmune/rheumatic disorders such as sarcoidosis, systemic sclerosis and Sjogren’s syndrome. Contrary to plastic surgeons telling women that breast implants are completely safe, the science and evidence of the negative health consequences of breast implants continues to come to light.
350,000 Breast Implant Incidents Hidden
Why has breast implant illness been hidden from the public for so long? In November 2018, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) broke out its global examination of medical device failures in Implant Files and specifically their investigative story Breast Implants Injuries Kept Hidden As New Health Threats Surface by Sasha Chavkin which details how adverse event reports regarding breast implant injuries were hidden from the public. After ICIJ’s Implant Files were released, the FDA, Health Canada and other international regulatory bodies came under scrutiny regarding medical devices including breast implants and consequently the FDA announced safety discussions regarding breast implants. On the eve of the safety discussions, the FDA revealed that they Kept Hundreds of Thousands of Breast Implant Incidents Hidden From Public.
What Doctors and the FDA
Aren’t Telling You About Breast Implants
Cohesive Gel Implants are not Safer
Many women ask us, are there any safe breast implants? The answer is no, there are no safe breast implants, all kinds of breast implants (saline, silicone and cohesive gel/gummy bear) cause symptoms and breast implant illness. Manufacturers and plastic surgeons have a long, erroneous history of insisting each new generation of breast implants are safer than previous generations. In the beginning of breast augmentation history, doctors were injecting silicone which caused death to women. Then came the runny silicone breast implants which leaked, ruptured and caused broad illness resulting in lawsuits and the bankruptcy of Dow Chemical. Then plastic surgeons promoted saline as the new safe breast implant but now we know saline cause symptoms too and can mold. Since 2005, plastic surgeons have been promoting cohesive gel/gummy bear breast implants as the new safe breast implant however, again, this is not true and cohesive gel seem to be the most chemically aggressive implants laden with heavy metals which are used to make the silicone cohesive and these aggressive chemicals and heavy metals are causing profound illness much earlier than previous implants. In addition, we have several photos of ruptured and leaking cohesive gel implants which shows they are not exactly cohesive in the human body.
Silicone Toxicity and Silicone Gel Bleed
Instead of being told the lie that silicone is an inert and biologically inactive substance, we wish we had been told the truth which is silicone is made up of approximately 40 toxic chemicals and an array of heavy metals which will damage your health, and that silicone bleeds through the shell microscopically from early on. The ingredients of silicone were revealed in the Dow Chemical Breast Implant Trial and although they tried to cover it up after the fact, it has become public knowledge and both the ingredients of silicone and the coverup are described in the book Breast Implants and the D.I.R.T. Committee by Gail Hamilton. Plastic surgeons don’t talk about the ingredients in silicone because nobody would buy implants if they knew the toxic chemicals and heavy metals in them. If you research each of the chemicals of silicone online you will read that they are defined as as cytotoxic, neurotoxic, endocrine disruptors, carcinogenic and harsh irritants to live tissues causing inflammation and damaging organs and glands. Here are some of the known ingredients in breast implants:
- Methyl ethyl ketone (neurotoxin)
- Cyclohexanone (neurotoxin)
- Isopropyl Alcohol
- Denatured Alcohol
- Acetone (used in nail polish remover and is a neurotoxin)
- Urethane
- Polyvinyl chloride (neurotoxin)
- Amine
- Toulene
- Dicholormethane (carcinogen)
- Chloromethane
- Ethyl acetate (neurotoxin)
- Silicone
- Sodium fluoride
- Lead Based Solder
- Formaldehyde
- Talcum powder
- Oakite (cleaning solvent)
- Methyl 2- Cynanoacrylates
- Ethylene Oxide (Carcinogen)
- Xylene (neurotoxin)
- Hexon
- 2-Hedanone
- Thixon-OSN-2
- Stearic Acid
- Zinc Oxide
- Naptha (rubber solvent)
- Phenol (neurotoxin)
- Benzene (carcinogen/neurotoxin)
- Lacquer thinner
- Epoxy resin
- Epoxy hardener
- Printing Ink
- Metal cleaning acid
- Colour pigments as release agents
- Heavy metals such as aluminium (neurotoxin linked to Alzheimer’s and auto immune disorders)
- Platinium
- Silica
How Silicone Bleeds Through
the Shell of the Breast Implant
How Silicone Bleeds Through the Shell of the Breast Implant
Here is a video demonstrating how silicone bleeds through the shell of the breast implant and can be felt as a slick coating on the implant and thus poisons us even though the implants are still intact and do not appear ruptured.
Studies & Medical Case Reports
Studies & Medical Case Reports
- Understanding Breast Implant Illness
- Low Molecular Weight Silicone Induce Cell Death
- Sclerodermalike esophageal disease in children breast-fed by mothers with silicone breast implants
- Immune functional impairment in patients with clinical abnormalities and silicone breast implants
- Suppressed natural killer cell activity in patients with silicone breast implants: reversal upon explantation
- Silicone-induced modulation of natural killer cell activity
- An association of silicone-gel breast implant rupture and fibromyalgia
- Antibody to silicone and native macromolecules in women with silicone breast implants
- Cellular immune reactivities in women with silicone breast implants
- Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma: a systematic review
- Silicone breast implant rupture presenting as bilateral leg nodules
- Intrapulmonary and cutaneous siliconomas after silent silicone breast implant failure
- Silicon granuloma mimicking lung cancer:
- Neck lymphadenitis due to silicone granuloma
- Silicone Toxicology
- Locoregional silicone spread after high cohesive gel silicone implant rupture
- Silicon granulomas and dermatomyositis like changes associated with chronic eyelid edema
- Demonstration of silicon in the sites of connective-tissue disease in patients with silicone gel breast implant
- Systemic sclerosis after augmentation with silicone breast implants
- Human adjuvant disease following augmentation mammoplasty
- Increase urinary NO3(-) + NO2- and neopterin excretion in children breast fed by mothers with silicone breast implants: evidence for macrophage activation
- Espophageal dysmotility in children breast-fed by mother with silicone breast implants. Long term followup and response to treatment
- Silicone gel breast implant rupture, extracapsular silicone, and health status
- Microscopic Polyangiitis following silicone exposure from breast implants
- Left unilateral breast autoinflation
- The semi-permeability of silicone: a saline-filled breast implant with Aspergillus flavus (fungus)
- Paecilomyces variotii contamination in the lumen of a saline filled breast implant
- Microbial growth inside saline filled breast implants
- Detection of subclinical infection in significant breast implant capsules
- Infections in breast implants
- Capsules Left Cause Systemic Inflammatory Disorder
- Importance of histological analysis of seroma fluid
- Promotion of variant human mammary epithelial cell outgrowth by ionizing radiation: an agent-based model supported by in vitro studies
- Implant infection after augmentation mammaplasty: a review of the literature and report of a multidrug-resistant Candida albicans infection
- Stimulation of T lymphocytes by silica after use of silicone mammary implants
- Severe Asia Syndrome associated with lymph node, thoracic and pulmonary penetration by silicone
- Rupture and intrapleural migration of Cohesive Silicone Gel Implant
- Siloxanes (silicone) of breast implants produces fatal liver and lung damage in mice
- The spectrum of ASIA: ‘Autoimmune (Auto-inflammatory) Syndrome induced by Adjuvants
- Intrapulmonary and cutaneous siliconomas after silent silicone breast implant failure
- Silicone breast implant rupture presenting as bilateral leg nodules
- Microbial Growth Inside Saline Implants
- Endocrine activity of persistent organic pollutants accumulated in human silicone implants–Dosing in vitro assays by partitioning from silicone
- Residual silicone detection using mri following previous breast implant removal: Case reports
- Complications related to retained breast implant capsules
- Silicone breast implants and autoimmunity: causation, association, or myth
- Adjuvant Breast Disease: An Evaluation of 100 Symptomatic Women with Breast Implants Or Silicone Injections and a picture of silicone in breast milk ducts from a ruptured silicone breast implant
- Anti-collagen autoantibodies are found in women with silicone breast implants
- Silicone Review
- Silicone breast implant associated musculoskeletal manifestations
- Silicone breast prosthesis and rheumatoid arthritis: a new systemic disease: siliconosis. A case report and critical review of the literature
- Breast implant associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma: a case report and reconstructive option
- Radiological trap and oncological precautions in a patient who has undergone a permanent withdrawal of PIP breast implants
- Late massive breast implant seroma in postpartum
- Late seroma during pregnancy, a rare complication in prosthetic breast augmentation a case report
- Talc deposition in skin and tissues surrounding silicone gel-containing prosthetic devices
- Silicone breast implants, Autoimmunity and the gut
- Silicone breast implant-induced lymphadenopathy: 18 Cases
- Is explantation of silicone breast implants useful in patients with complaints
- Seroma in Prosthetic Breast Reconstruction
- Severe manifestation of autoimmune syndrome induced by adjuvants (Shoenfeld’s Syndrome)
- Hypercalcemia as a consequence of modern cosmetic treatment with liquid silicone
- The Dark Side of Breast Implants by Frank Vasey
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I am 65 recently diagnosed with, alapecia, RA, fibromyalgia, severe back pain requiring daily medication and sleep apnea! I’m on SS and work part time to pay my bills. I have been to several plastic surgeons but I can’t possibly pay 10,000.00 for removal of my silicone implants. I’m so sick and worsening daily.
Alphaeon offers financing. Try to get them out ASAP – enbloc. I just did and feel so much better. They are toxic and should be banned. Dr Parrett in Nor Cal can sometimes get insurance to cover it even. Kaiser will explant but you have to say you are in pain and not mention Bii.
I am just 4 days away of having a double mastectomy due to cancer. I have had saline breast implants for almost 4 decades. I have had ruptures in the past. I also have fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, liver disease, peripheral neuropathy. I don’t recall any doctor looking at all these problems as a result of one cause, breast implants. So now I’m really concerned about moving forward with new saline implants after mastectomy. I would love any feedback, my mastectomy is 4 days away!
Hi Sue,
We don’t recommend implants to any woman, not even saline, breast implants cause all kinds of health problems for women.
I just had my silicone implants removed after 18 years. 5 years ago I started developing rashes in my armpits and couldn’t wear deodorant. The rashes went away but I can only use coconut oil in my armpits for deodorant. I also had big bags under my eyes develop. My right shoulder started to have trouble where I had difficulty pushing and pulling. My arm felt like it was hanging on the bone. I saw many therapists but they couldn’t figure out the cause of the discomfort or pain. Massage therapists told me that all the muscles of my shoulder and back would bind together.
I discovered that my right implant had ruptured and my left one was leaking. Thankfully I had an EN BLOC and now I have drains for a week. I’m hoping that most of the silicone was contained inside the encapsulations. I’m thinking I will be needing extensive sauna, epsom salt baths, detoxes, and lymph drainage massage. I’d be happy to share my videos of my doctor cutting open the encapsulations and the revealing the leaking and ruptured implants…. not sure we can upload videos here…
Hi Shirley.. I just read what you said about your implants. I have mentor as well. I feel awful. Sometimes I feel like I’m dying inside. I’m 65 yrs old. I know I shouldn’t feel this way but I am also so afraid of what I’ll be left with if I get them out. But I want to feel better because this isn’t living either. Can I ask you how you’re doing after your explant? Thanks for sharing. Sal