Australian star hurdler removes implants in preparation for 2012 Olympics

Aussie athlete Jana Rawlinson has revealed that she has had her highly publicized and much wanted breast implants taken out to enhance her chances of winning a medal for Australia at the 2012 Olympics.

“I absolutely loved having bigger boobs, but finally I’ve grown up enough to know myself; to be honest about who I am when I look in the mirror,” Rawlinson told the Woman’s Day magazine.

“I don’t want to short-change Australia either — I want to feel the most athletic I can, to know that I’m standing on the track in London the fittest I can be.”

Rawlinson, 27, who recently announced plans to remarry her estranged husband and manager Chris Rawlinson, had admitted she spent 13,000 dollars in the past 14 months to get the surgery done, but she is now taking the implants out as they are affecting her performance on track.

But she has not ruled out going back under the knife and having the fake breasts re-implanted once her track career is over.

Women could ‘regrow breasts’ after cancer surgery

 

Australian scientists said they were able to develop a revolutionary treatment which would allow women to regrow their breasts after cancer surgery.

Doctors from Melbourne’s Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery said they had developed an implantable device that uses a woman’s own fat cells to grow back breasts following a mastectomy.

“We have tested it in several animal models so we have done enough testing preclinical to be confident now to take the step with human trials,” said Dr. Phillip Marzella, the institute’s chief operating officer.

Trials on pigs had proved “very successful” and the question was whether the human body could grow fat in the breast area, he said.

“We are starting what is called a prototype trial in the next three to six months — a proof of principle trial with about five to six women just to demonstrate that the body can regrow its own fat supply in the breast,” Marzella said.

The trial, according to Marzella, is not to seek to grow a whole breast but to remedy the imperfection or asymmetry issue with their breasts after a mastectomy or partial mastectomy by allowing the implanted fat to grow.

This new surgical procedure is hoped to replace breast reconstructions and implants within the next few years.