Dow Corning and the Silicone Breast Implant Controversy

Introduction
Years ago, women were inflicted with what medical experts referred to as breast ailment; a disease found within the female breast that inevitably caused death. As years past and knowledge grew, this ailment was later named, breast cancer. This unusual and at times fatal disease underwent years of medical research in order to find its cause and what many had hoped for, a cure. Medical experts where able to prove that the removal of the breast; known as a mastectomy, would in most cases eliminate the disease. …