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Adult Stem cells to grow bigger breasts (Cancer Still not Cured)
The London Times ^
| March 29, 2009
| Sarah-Kate Templeton
Posted on 03/29/2009 7:29:42 PM PDT by GOPGuide
A STEM cell therapy offering natural breast enlargement is to be made available to British women for the first time.
The treatment could boost cup size while reducing stomach fat. It involves extracting stem cells from spare fat on the stomach or thighs and growing them in a womans breasts. An increase of one cup size is likely, with the potential for larger gains as the technique improves.
A trial has already started in Britain to use stem cells to repair the breasts of women who have had cancerous lumps removed. A separate project is understood to be the first in Britain to use the new technique on healthy women seeking breast enlargement.
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This is a very exciting advance in breast surgery, said Mokbel. They [breasts treated with stem cells] feel more natural because this tissue has the same softness as the rest of the breast. He said the treatment offered the potential of considerable improvement on implants: Implants are a foreign body. They are associated with long-term complications and require replacement. They can also leak and cause scarring.
Although the stem cell technique will restore volume, it will not provide firmness and uplift.
Mokbel believes the stem cell treatment may be suitable only for modest increases in breast size, but will conduct research to find out whether larger augmentations can be achieved: We are optimistic we can easily achieve an increase of one cup size. We cannot say yet if we can achieve more. That may depend on the stem cells we can harvest.
The cells will be isolated from a womans spare fat, once it has been extracted from her thighs or stomach, using equipment owned by GE Healthcare, a technology company.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adultstemcells; bra; breastaugmentation; breastenhancement; breastenlargement; breasts; breastsize; cupsize; lumpectomycancer; stemcells
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To: Grizzled Bear; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
"Forward, in the name of SCIENCE!"
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posted on
03/29/2009 9:12:43 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(Can't get enough of my snarking? http://twitter.com/slingsandarrows)
To: gogogodzilla
Idiocracy was a documentary.
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posted on
03/29/2009 9:16:19 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: GOPGuide
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posted on
03/29/2009 9:18:34 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: Do not invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: GOPGuide
44
posted on
03/29/2009 9:19:53 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: Do not invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
03/29/2009 9:55:33 PM PDT
by
PERKY2004
(Proud Military Wife -- my DH is in his 26th year of military service! PRAY 4 OUR TROOPS!)
To: MAD-AS-HELL; ansel12
When I see women with ridiculously large breasts, I don't get aroused I feel pity for these poor women. How enjoyable can life, much less sex can be when you back is literally grinding itself apart.
Guys, image carrying two-four gallon jugs of water all day!! You get the picture, especially as you grow older. Orthopedic surgeons will be in great demand.
To: GOPGuide
“Stem cells to grow bigger breasts”
Hey now. And there I didn’t even know stem cells HAD breasts.
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posted on
03/29/2009 10:28:18 PM PDT
by
RightOnTheLeftCoast
(1st call: Abbas. 1st interview: Al Arabiya. 1st energy decision: halt drilling in UT. Arabs 1st!)
To: pandoraou812
a last chance for happiness ping ;^)
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posted on
03/29/2009 11:49:34 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Cloward-Piven Strategy)
To: GOPGuide
I confess I’ve always been a sucker for big boobs, so I’d call this promising.
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posted on
03/30/2009 12:09:16 AM PDT
by
RussP
To: GOPGuide
It is nice to see these scientists working on all of the important health concerns of the day. People dying of diabetes, cancer and heart disease will be glad to hear that stem cells are being used to enlarge breasts.
To: Cobra64
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posted on
03/30/2009 12:15:02 AM PDT
by
Seadog Bytes
(OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
To: GOPGuide
The real story here is about the possibility of breast reconstruction and potentially improved quality of life post-lumpectomy for UK breast cancer patients. The paper has chosen to focus on titillation, rather than potential benefit for cancer patients. More balanced report from conservative paper, The Telegraph:
http://tinyurl.com/celution
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posted on
03/30/2009 4:13:08 AM PDT
by
conorato
(follow @conorato on Twitter for health and life sciences issues)
To: BlessingsofLiberty
Note to Mr. 0bama: Those are adult stem cells which were not created by killing babies.
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posted on
03/30/2009 4:17:41 AM PDT
by
reg45
(Be calm everyone. The idiot child is in charge!)
To: cripplecreek
Maybe they're really big tumors. "It's NOT a toomah!"
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posted on
03/30/2009 4:25:37 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
("Remember, remember, the Fourth of November, the Socialist treason and plot...")
To: GOPGuide
just so long as the breasts don’t grow breasts
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posted on
03/30/2009 4:27:22 AM PDT
by
Puddleglum
(my opinions on stuff -- http://www.phawkins.com)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
03/30/2009 4:29:01 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
It's so versatile!
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posted on
03/30/2009 5:24:50 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(Can't get enough of my snarking? http://twitter.com/slingsandarrows)
To: GOPGuide
I expect the discussion here to be intelligent and mature. Did you forget the < /sarcasm> tag?
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posted on
03/30/2009 7:12:21 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(It took almost 250 years to make the USA great and 30 days for "The Failure" BO to tear it down.)
To: GOPGuide
I expect the discussion here to be intelligent and mature Then you posted to the wrong forum.
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posted on
03/30/2009 7:19:28 AM PDT
by
techcor
(I hope Obama succeeds... in becoming a one term president.)
To: GOPGuide
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