1.   There is concern over the safety of silicone breast implants.

2.   And if the litigation over silicone breast implants is any guide, the ultimate price could be staggering.

3.   A court-appointed panel of experts has concluded that existing scientific evidence does not show a link between silicone breast implants and systemic disease.

4.   A decade later, she served as a consumer advocate on the Food and Drug Administration committee that investigated the potential hazards of silicone breast implants.

5.   A premier federal research center, the National Cancer Institute, is under attack for its new study of whether silicone breast implants can trigger serious diseases in women.

6.   A number of studies from such institutions as the Mayo Clinic and Harvard University have questioned whether silicone implants do, indeed, cause disease.

7.   About the same time, the debate over silicone breast implants hit the news.

8.   But plaintiffs argue that manufacturers are only now beginning to study the possible after-effects of putting silicone implants into the body.

9.   But the agreement leaves unresolved the dispute over the extent of harm from silicone implants.

10.   But then Martina Langley reports that last year in El Salvador she opened a newspaper and there was an ad for silicone breast implants.