One breast too many

THE sconline.com.cn website reported how a man surnamed Jiang ended up with a female breast after a surgery-gone-wrong at a Guangdong laser centre.

Muscle shrinkage on the right side of his chest made him decide to undergo a breast enlargement operation.

However, the result was one "woman's breast", after the doctor at the centre injected unspecified "medicine" into the spot.

He undertook another surgery to remove the "breast," which increased the discomfort from the now thoroughly traumatized right side of his chest.

It also harmed his stomach, intestines and liver over the succeeding three years.

A strange lump still disfigures his chest.

Experts said breast-enlarging injections have been forbidden in many foreign countries, since they can cause cancer or other diseases.

Two breasts short

HE Jie, a beauty consultant from Southwest China's Yunnan Province, had to have her breasts removed because chemicals injected into them produced numerous lumps on her chest and even on her belly.

She undertook the initial surgery, in a clinic that had advertised breast-enlarging injections on TV, in Yuxi City in 2000.

The operation cost 9,000 yuan (US$1,087), although she said the surgeon failed to give her any kind of medical examination before the operation.

When surgeons in a Beijing hospital opened her malformed breast in 2001, they found more than 20 bluish lumps exuding a foul smell.

For fear of possible cancer, the doctors recommended the surgical removal of both breasts.

Her husband divorced her after the operation. (Star News)