Silicone Implant Associated Syndrome
The study of Silicone Implant Associated Syndrome (SIAS), the body's reaction to silicone breast implants, should illuminate mechanisms of environmental illness and autoimmunity. Unfortunately, corporate interests have prevented this.
Memoir
of a Junk Scientist
by Dr. Bernard Patten, MD
Dr. Bernard Patten's article is devastating. An accomplished
neurologist, he personally knew the inventors of silicone breast
implants at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Patten
treated over 2000 women with implants who had subsequent neurological
and immune problems. His research, which correlated the degree of
autoimmune illness with implant rupture, was ruthlessly suppressed. At
the end of his article, Dr. Patten suggests a program for research and
treatment.
Human adjuvant
disease: presentation as a multiple sclerosis-like syndrome
by B.O. Shoaib and B.M. Patten, Southern Medical Journal,
February 1996 (abstract)
Adjuvant breast
disease: an evaluation of 100 symptomatic women with breast implants
or silicone fluid injections
by B.O. Shoaib, B.M. Patten, and D.S. Calkins, The Keio Journal
of Medicine, June 1994
Silicone-reactive
disorder:
a new autoimmune disease caused by immunostimulation and
superantigens
by M.A. Lappe, Medical Hypotheses, October 1993
(abstract)
Healing Breast Implant Illness
Silicone Breast Implants and Injections
by Dr. Sarah Myhill, MD
Silicone Implant Articles
Plastikos
Breast Implants and Disease
by David S. Egilman, M.D.
Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma
A Shocking Diagnosis: Breast Implants ‘Gave Me Cancer’
The New York Times, May 14, 2017
What You Need to Know if You Have Breast Implants
The New York Times, May 14, 2017
Updated 5/15/2017