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*They searched discharge codes for an entire *province [Trento, 1993 est pop. 452,000] for 15 years, and all they could *come up with is 21 cases. That’s in incidence of 0.3 cases per 100,000. *Pathetic. Scleroderma is a very newly named and described disease ~ it’s actually a syndrome. Up until a very few years ago, it was called CREST and even then it was not well defined. I know many, many women who have gone to doctors here in the good ole AMA medical system ~ in the last 2 years with SD symptoms ~ and were told either: 1 ~ No possible correlation between their implants and these scleroderma symptoms OR 2 ~ No notation was made of their implants / silicon / silicones/ silica / solvents exposure! So . . . to me that this study looked at and found a beginning connection was noteworthy. Understanding autoimmune diseases is in its infancy, eddie, and I stake my life that in 10 years, the standards and understandings regarding them will be extremely different from now. Much more will be known and recognized in AMA style medicine regarding the damage to our health from chemical exposures of various kinds. Particularly, permanently implanted chemical exposure! You can sit and wait and harass me in the meantime . . . but for me, opening the consciousness in this issue is more important. There are hundreds of thousands of women with rupturing implants right now ~ and I believe that their health has a far better chance without pouring the silicone toxic soup into their systems! Therefore, I will continue to notice the similarities and links and evidence as it appears and pass this information on. Much more to be revealed . . . Hopefully, some women’s health will be saved in the meantime.
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Scleroderma is a very newly named and described disease ~ it’s actually a syndrome. Up until a very few years ago, it was called CREST and even then it was not well defined.
Scleroderma was already well established as a disease entity at the time I started med school 23 years ago. CREST is the newer one, and it is something different from scleroderma (although they share some features). Eddie Ed Uthman, MD <http://www.neosoft.com/~uthman/ corpore servit." Pathologist -Seneca Houston/Richmond, Texas, USA
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Scleroderma and occupational exposure. Scand J Work Environ Health Vol. 21 no. 4 pp. 289-92 CAS Registry/EC Number:
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