Pam and Brenna pamgdowd@yahoo.com

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A special thanks to all the plastic surgeons whose advertising makes it possible to have this site. They are uninvited (but apparently necessary) intruders who lure countless women into their practices each year, creating a financial boom to their own bank accounts. Their advertising dollars gives me the ability to keep the truth about breast implants in front of the public and the government.

On April 1st, Pam Dowd, an Idaho widow, and her daughter will begin traveling across the country to speak before the FDA General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee on the safety of silicone gel breast implants.

Pam underwent a radical mastectomy at the age of 27 for breast cancer in May 1975. On November 19, 1980, she began her tortuous journey through total breast reconstruction. She underwent a latissimus dorsi flap and had three ruptured breast implants. Her last set of implants were Mentors and caused her to cough and choke for seven years, until she convinced a doctor to remove them.

Speaking before the National Institute of Medicine in July 1998, Pam realized the enormous job that needed to be done to educate the world on the dangers of silicone gel breast implants. She has also traveled from Idaho to Gaithersburg, MD, in Oct. 2003, to speak before the FDA General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee on the safety of silicone gel breast implants. Pam maintains a web site that reveals a small number of the legal documents available on what has been a national disgrace and corporate coverup. Pam has spoken on this subject before college classes and state governmental committees.

Once again, the women who have been endangered since 1992 with a toxic product must come before their government and speak out on the safety and health issues related to silicone gel breast implants. We have been the uninformed lab animals on behalf of the implant manufacturers for over forty years.

Please join Pam and her daughter as they travel across the country in their 1984 Southwind motor home, heading to the April hearing in Gaithersburg, MD, on the 11th of April. Both Pam and her daughter are scheduled to speak that morning. Pam is scheduled for 9:05 AM to be followed by her daughter.

This web site will track their journey beginning April 2, 2005. Please join them along the way. And when you see that Toxic Discovery logo on the back of the motorhome, give a wave.

We'll be looking for you.

Join us on our travel.

Implant Veterans of Toxic Exposure

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