Posted on 10/20/2014 10:36:46 AM PDT by Patriot777
Allergy to Some Metal Implants Linked to Rare Skin Cancer, Study Says - TUESDAY Oct. 14, 2014:
A rare type of skin cancer has been linked to allergic reactions to metal implants, researchers said.
Some patients who have metal devices implanted near the skin may develop chronic skin rashes caused by contact allergies to metals such as nickel, cobalt and chromium. These rashes may lead to an unusual and aggressive form of skin cancer, the researchers said.
The study's authors described the case of a woman who had a metal rod implanted to repair a broken ankle, and later developed a skin rash near the site of the implant. Doctors determined that the patient was allergic to nickel in the implant and removed the metal rod.
However, the woman's skin rash persisted. A few years later, a rare form of skin cancer called Marjolin's ulcer developed at the woman's rash site. Doctors removed the cancer.
In experiments with mice, the researchers showed that chronic skin inflammation caused by continuous skin contact with allergens can lead to tumor development, according to the study published online Oct. 8 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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LOL
Interesting article to think about, anyway.
doh!
I deeply regret upsetting you and I apologize, and may the Lord deeply bless you and your wife as you both deal with the results of illness and traumatic injury. In no way, shape or form do I believe that anyone who has any type of structural or electronic medical device implant has the mark of the Beast, although in my comments I projected such reasoning and in which I erred. The comment was very poorly worded in that I left some very much-needed information out.
My own body at this very moment carries around inside it an implanted medical device, and thank God for the existence of such technology.
Ok.... I take my insult back. ;>)
Less exotic metals might benefit from a coating of the element lead. Bullets from shooting victims are more frequently left in place nowadays. A lead bullet not removed from within one’s body gets a natural biological coating of the surface with a chalk-like texture, and can be forgotten.
Could very well be genetic modification that is involved in the implant, very interesting point.
I apologize; I thought I had put the actual title of the article where it was supposed to be, but apparently I didn’t.
Of the top of my head I can't recall whether the metallic form of lead or one of its oxidation forms is more toxic, but it certainly does have some toxicity, although probably not quite as bad as the EPA would claim. I'm glad to be done with lead plumbing. I'm certainly glad to be done with lead oxide makeup (also the norm in antiquity.) Getting the lead out of gasoline was probably a good thing, removing lead paint from around children probably was too. In some circumstances lead paint is probably ok.
I'm not sure how active metabolically a lead coating would be. It might not involve much mass, but yet significant surface area and the surface area involved probably would affect the rate the body would release or convert it. One of the major effects of lead is on the blood; physically putting it in the bone marrow via orthopedic procedures 'feels' iffy to me. If coating an implant were appropriate, I suspect a better coating than lead could be found. But for many routine orthopedic procedures there is a large literature claiming plain stainless steel is safe (empirically, like your bullet analogy,) in spite of its high nickel content and even for the numerous patients with nickel skin allergies, the most common skin allergy worldwide. Orthopedic surgeons probably know that literature better than Dermatologists like myself. For that matter true stainless steel is safe for the skin in nickel allergic patients; the nickel is bound so tightly in the alloy the immune system never sees it to react to scalpels, wire sutures, kitchen sinks, etc.
>>> We were all born with the ‘mark of the beast’
No we were not. We were made in the image of God.
It is not something we are born with, it is something men are
forced to take during the tribulation period, or they are executed.
We can only speculate what form this mark will take, but
you clearly have some reading to do in Revelation.
The tech that pierced my ears when I was in my teens used stainless-steel posts, which in turn caused my lobes to swell up with puss around the posts and become infected. My mother had to take two small pairs of pliers and carefully wash and then sanitize them with Betadine, and pull the posts out. Another half-hour was spent treating my earlobes with an insulin sharp, more Betadine, and then Polysporin.
After a couple of months my ears had completely healed, and I purchased some 14K gold posts and wore them with no problem. In all, I know exactly what you’re talking about.
As far as someone presenting with a skin allergy and then being diagnosed with a rare skin malignancy some time afterward, I believe we can reserve this as just what the article specifies—”rare”, as if this phenomenon were occurring all over the world, it would very likely be hitting the media like a firestorm.
No need to get snarky ;)
Revelation 16:1-2 (KJV): “And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.”
“No we were not. We were made in the image of God.”
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
(Genesis 1:26-27 KJV)
It is true that Man (Adam) was created in the image and likeness of God. Sin spoiled that. We have all been born in Sin. Born with a ‘natural’ mind. We are told to put on the ‘mind of Christ’. The natural mind that we were born with is subject to ‘the ruler of this world’...until such time as we are re-born in Christ.
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