User talk:Will Blake

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1 Breast Implants
2 How do you explain improvement
3 Merge query
4 Censoring
5 MCOTW
6 Please watch
7 Aortic dissection
8 MCOTW
9 WP:MED

[edit] Breast Implants

Hi WIll! Thanks for your input on the BI article. It is interesting that there was no increase in brain or breast cancer, but still an increase in lung cancer - without a difference in smoking rates among the groups (that is important for obvious reasons). I wonder what the rate of recurrant breast cancer is among those women who who had had reconstruction (as opposed to cosmetic augmentation) v. women who did not have reconstruction. Would that show a difference, as a result of difficulty seeing the cancer on mammograms? I also would like to see the rate of rupture on older implants when mammograms are used. I know that mammograms can rupture implants, but generally those are older implants. If you have any info on this, please share it.molly bloom 16:23, 15 April 2006 (UTC) PS are you a fan of william blake?

Thanks for the note. I'm impressed how much effort you put into the complications while I was asleep. Are you using a book or are you in the industry? I think your comments are fair. To answer your specific points:

Breast reconstruction with flaps does not alter the rate of cancer recurrence or the outcome of the recurrences that do occur. Data from MD Anderson: Langstein HN, Cheng MH, Singletary SE, Robb GL, Hoy E, Smith TL, Kroll SS (2003). "Breast cancer recurrence after immediate reconstruction: patterns and significance". Plast Reconstr Surg 111 (2): 712-20; discussion 721-2. PMID 12560692.
I have never seen evidence of rupture caused by mamography. There are a few reports in the literature but no idea of what the rate may be - LOW though.
I do love William Blake and here in Melbourne we have a collection of his watercolours at the National Gallery of Victoria. They are from the songs of innocence and songs of experience.

Will Blake 00:12, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah another William Blake fan! Great poet and artist. I have been to Sydney when I worked internationally, but never Melbourne. I loved Sydney. Some of the most down-to-earth friendly people I have ever met were in Sydney.

And the city is gorgeous. I will never forget it.

Those are interesting articles. It does make sense that metastases were less likely to develop in patients with subcutaneous tissue recurrence than in those with chest wall recurrence. However, my question was whether women who were reconstructed with breast implants had any different recurrence rate than women who were not (or who had trans flap). Perhaps I worded my question poorly.

[edit] How do you explain improvement

I am curious, since you seem to think that silicone implants are perfectly safe...how do you explain the improvement in women who have had them removed? And do you follow women for 10 or 20 years to see how their health fares? MollyBloom 15:00, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Don't know where the word 'perfectly' comes from but, to answer your question, I don't know how your experience fits in. I know about your results, illness and improvement but, to me, it's anomalous. I'm not sure global policy should be based on such anomalous experiences. (And yes I do see 10 and 20 year follow ups.) Will Blake

I see you mind is closed. Interestingly, peer reviewed studies show that women DO improve after explant. I would think that even if PS don't care a whit about their patients, they might at least have some intellectual curiosity. This has been quite an experience for me, and has changed my opinion of doctors, for the worse.MollyBloom 01:25, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, the rate of rupture with mammogram is not that low, especially with older implants.MollyBloom 18:00, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge query

been doing a little wikification but these articles are on the same topic: Oxygen-haemoglobin dissociation curve and Oxygen-dissociation curve. how do I merge them? Will TALK 10:07, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages gives a pretty good description of the process. Use {{helpme}} again if you have further questions.--Commander Keane 10:17, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Censoring

Is there any other way of censoring our problem? I do not believe this is the spirit of Wikopedia. It is an open source encyclopedia, and editors are invited to participate, within the rules of Wikipedia. I would appreciate it if you would not call me names, also. Let's be civil towards each other, okay?MollyBloom 20:13, 11 June 2006 (UTC)