Canadian HRT users can claim compensation from $13M fund

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Canadian HRT users can claim compensation from $13M fund
Topic Started: Jul 9 2015, 01:56 AM (162 Views)
Darcie	Jul 9 2015, 01:56 AM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: More than 1,000 Canadian women who claimed they were not properly warned of breast cancer risks by the manufacturers of popular menopause drugs — made in part from estrogen extracted from the urine of pregnant mares — can now request compensation from a $13.6-million settlement fund. Dianna Stanway, the leading claimant in a decade-long class action suit against drug manufacturer Wyeth Canada (now a division of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer), said her legal battle was about accountability, not cash. “I really wasn’t in it for the money,” said the 69-year-old Stanway from her home in Sechelt, B.C. “It was the point that (the menopause medications) caused cancer and people should know.” Stanway, who said she is now cancer-free, alleged in 2004, when the class action was launched, that she developed breast cancer after using the menopause drug Premarin in combination with the hormone progestin for about eight years. As of June 29, class action members have one year to make a compensation claim from the $13.65-million fund central to the settlement. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/07/08/canadian-hrt-users-can-claim-compensation-from-13m-fund.html Good for them. I am not one of them, I had absolutely no symptoms whatsoever, not even one mini-hotflash.



Olive Oil	Jul 9 2015, 05:11 AM Post #2
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,747 Group: Member Member #785 Joined: June 10, 2010	I have an acquaintance who had a normal mammogram 6 months ago. On vacation, she found a lump in her breast and last month, she found out it is third stage cancer. I am astounded because I was under the impression that it would take years for a cancer to progress so quickly. Her doctors say it is a very aggressive strain and that it is not rare to have this happen so quickly. She has been on estrogen for a few years and this is a estrogen dependent cancer.



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