Cancer and Early Menopause

There are new studies coming out that are appearing to show that women who had experienced and lived through cancer in their younger years are going through menopause earlier than usual. The qustion is whether these girls are experiencing earlier menopause because of that or in spite of it, or puberty for girls can negatively affect and even disable the reproductive system and sexual organs of a woman’s body.

Does this mean that earlier cancer treatments had an impact on the whole hormonal system, triggering earlier menopause and hormonal responses earlier than 40 years old? It’s looking like that may be the case. 

Since menopause can cause other health issues, doctors are looking at the possibility of advising patients to try to have families earlier if they want children, to avoid being barren later in life and having health issues with small children.

New Research : Mammograms Cause Breast Cancer?

Well, not exactly in every case, but new research shows that in certain women with genetic weaknesses which predispose them to breast cancer may have as much as a 54% higher risk of developing breast cancer simply from getting a mammogram.

Carmen Electra’s Breast Implants

Carmen Electra is known for being a sexpot, and especially known, like Pamela Anderson, for her larger than life breast implants, which, in my opinion, overpower her petite frame and look a little too globe-like.  Carmen would be a perfect ten if she just downsized her breast implants a little, in my opinion. 

Carmen has actually been quoted before as saying that she did feel she went a little too large with her implants when she first got them, but then got to liking them more and getting used to them, and being glad that she didn’t need to wear a bra if she didn’t want to. 

I actually have Carmen’s strip tease workout videos, so I’ve seen her in skimpy outfits, moving around a lot, and because her implants are too large, they don’t really move like natural breasts do. 

I’m not sure what Carmen started off as, probably a larger B cup would be my guess, but I think her plastic surgeon should have recommended something like a nice modest C cup or a full C cup, and that would have been a much more natural look for this natural beauty.

New “Next Generation” Elast Eon Breast Implants

A British biotechnology firm called AorTech was getting close to clinically testing and putting patients under trials in 2004 on what it says are the “next generation” breast implants which are supposed to be much less prone to leaking and/or rupturing and also have a much more natural feel, which is one of the biggest complaints with women with traditional saline breast implants today, that they feel hard and not real enough.

These new Elast-Eon implants could potentially take 10 percent of the $600-million-a-year global cosmetic improvement breast implant and reconstructive breast surgery market from the biggest implant maker right now, which is Mentor (last I checked at least). 

As of yet, I have not heard any news on whether the Elast Eon breast implant has made any progress as far as being approved by the FDA for sale in the US, or whether it has even been approved for use overseas in breast enlargement surgeries, since European countries seem much more lax about approving newer medical and cosmetic treatments. 

I’ll keep everyone posted of course.

Stem Cells as New Breast Implants?

In weird and weirder news about breast implants I found an interesting if not kind of creepy article about a developing study on using human stem cells to locally grow new fatty breast cells and tissue as an alternative to breast implants for reconstructive surgery (as in, for women who’ve had mastectomies or other breast deformities). 

A scientist at the University of Illinois took human stem cells and used the cells to grow fatty breast tissue using a “biologically compatible scaffolding”.

The tissue was then transplanted into mice with an immune deficiency to prevent them from rejecting the newly implanted tissue. Miraculously, the implants maintained their size and shape after four weeks, but the story did not go on to say if they lasted any longer or if any complications occurred.

Breast implants that are grown from human stem cells could possibly, if this actually works some day and proven 100% safe, provide a safer alternative to the silicone or saline implants that are currently available to implant patients, which can rupture and are also a cause of interference in mammograms.

They could also be better looking and feeling, if they are engineered to keep their size and shape over the years a woman has them in her body, unlike implants which are said to lose their integrity over the years (but of course you know, this is why you must replace them).