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Chip implants linked to animal tumors
...........in mice and rats. Apparently there's also a couple of instances
of tumors in dogs. Personally I'm surprised they haven't found more growths associated with chips. Not necessarily cancerous tumors, but a benign attempt by the body to sequester this foreign object. NOW they want to do a 20 yr study on canines/chips/tumors......hmmmmmmmm. I don't like the mealy mouthed stuff about chips helping thousands of animals return home either. That may be a fact, but one is entitled to weigh benefit vs. risk when making a decision to chip or not. Informed decision is important. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070908/...ca_ii;_ylt=AhT mC4G10piZR9uqOBLWIBFH2ocA *Tens of thousands of dogs have been chipped, she said, and veterinary pathologists haven't reported outbreaks of related sarcomas in the area of the neck, where canine implants are often done. (Published reports detailing malignant tumors in two chipped dogs turned up in AP's four-month examination of research on chips and health. In one dog, the researchers said cancer appeared linked to the presence of the embedded chip; in the other, the cancer's cause was uncertain.) Nonetheless, London saw a need for a 20-year study of chipped canines "to see if you have a biological effect." Dr. Chand Khanna, a veterinary oncologist at the National Cancer Institute, also backed such a study, saying current evidence "does suggest some reason to be concerned about tumor formations."* buglady take out the dog before replying |
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Chip implants linked to animal tumors
buglady wrote:
..........in mice and rats. Apparently there's also a couple of instances of tumors in dogs. Personally I'm surprised they haven't found more growths associated with chips. Not necessarily cancerous tumors, but a benign attempt by the body to sequester this foreign object. NOW they want to do a 20 yr study on canines/chips/tumors......hmmmmmmmm. I don't like the mealy mouthed stuff about chips helping thousands of animals return home either. That may be a fact, but one is entitled to weigh benefit vs. risk when making a decision to chip or not. Informed decision is important. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070908/...ca_ii;_ylt=AhT mC4G10piZR9uqOBLWIBFH2ocA I found this interesting: quote The FDA also stands by its approval of the technology. Did the agency know of the tumor findings before approving the chip implants? The FDA declined repeated AP requests to specify what studies it reviewed. The FDA is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, which, at the time of VeriChip's approval, was headed by Tommy Thompson. Two weeks after the device's approval took effect on Jan. 10, 2005, Thompson left his Cabinet post, and within five months was a board member of VeriChip Corp. and Applied Digital Solutions. He was compensated in cash and stock options. Thompson, until recently a candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, says he had no personal relationship with the company as the VeriChip was being evaluated, nor did he play any role in FDA's approval process of the RFID tag. "I didn't even know VeriChip before I stepped down from the Department of Health and Human Services," he said in a telephone interview./quote Uh huh. Follow the money. FurPaw -- "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower To reply, unleash the dog. |
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