Sure.
It's not my study; it's a study by the National Cancer Institute. It's comparable, but perhaps not quite as large as the Canadian study that was just described. It involved women who had implants for an average of 20 years rather than 15 years. So it was a little longer.
I put the slide up. They had a doubling of brain cancer deaths, a doubling of lung cancer deaths, and a doubling of suicides. This was compared to women with other plastic surgery. Women who have plastic surgery are more likely to smoke. So it's important to look at them compared to each other, and not to the general population.
When they looked more carefully at lung cancer, for example, they found that the women who smoked and had breast implants were more likely to die from lung cancer than women who smoked but did not have breast implants. Perhaps it was that double vulnerability of smoke and leaking silicone that made the difference, but who knows?
It's possible that if they study these women for longer periods of time, things will look different. If you look at people who have smoked for an average of 10 or 15 years, most of those people will not die of lung cancer yet. But if you study them for 25 years, many of them will. It takes time.