Hormone Replacement Therapy & Breast Cancer
Some women who reach their middle age enter a stage of life called menopause. Over the last 60 years, millions of women have received menopausal hormone therapy to relieve symptoms of menopause which are sometimes felt as hot flashes. Through the 1970's, menopausal women received estrogen to combat those symptoms. Premarin, manufactured by Wyeth Laboratories from pregnant mare's urine, was the nation's leading menopausal drug. But in the 1970's, doctors learned that Premarin caused endometrial cancer. Predictably, sales of Premarin plummeted, as woman appropriately stayed away.
Only a few years later, however, Wyeth learned that if women combined estrogen with another hormone called progestin, the endometrial cancer problem would disappear. So, to revive its failing drug, Wyeth told woman and their doctors that if they took the combination of Premarin and a progestin, they would not develop endometrial cancer. Moreover, Wyeth told the public, this combination hormone therapy (estrogen and a progestin), would also provide added protection to their heart, their bones, that it would help prevent Alzheimer's disease, depression, and increase their sexual vitality. In the mid-1990s, Wyeth turned the combination of Premarin and a progestin into a single pill, called "Prempro" and promoted it to women as the Fountain of Youth. Wyeth, however, had no data to back these claims up.
In July 2002, a federal study revealed that long-term use of Prempro leads to increased risk of breast cancer, heart disease and strokes. This study, called the Woman's Health Initiative (WHI), showed doctors that virtually everything that the pharmaceutical companies had been telling them about the benefits and risks of Prempro was wrong! The WHI study concluded that the RISKS of Prempro outweighed its benefits, and urged woman on the study to stop taking Prempro immediately.
Over the past few years, Tobias Millrood has represented hundreds of women who have developed cancer as a result of taking Hormone Replacement Therapy. He has convinced two separate juries in Philadelphia that Hormone Replacement Therapy caused a woman's breast cancer.
At Pogust Braslow & Millrood, we accept cases against the manufacturers of hormone replacement therapy. That is why if you or a loved one has been treated with hormone replacement therapy and diagnosed with cancer, you should immediately call the attorneys at Pogust Braslow & Millrood, where Protecting Consumers Is Our Primary Goal. We will evaluate your case, explain all of your options, and work to assure that the appropriate parties are held responsible. Just fill out this form, click here to send us an email or call us at (610) 941-4204.
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