Silicone Spills Author:Mary White Stewart For the past 30 years, multinational corporations have manufactured and marketed untested and unsafe silicone gel breast implants for implantation in women's bodies. Recent highly publicized studies and books on silicone breast implants have diverted our attention from the approximately one million women in the United States alone with implants,... more » at least 400,000 of whom suffer systemic and local effects of silicone gel bleed and rupture.« less