Effient Lawsuits
Side effects of Effient may be linked to an increased relative risk of cancer, according to recent research. Some experts have called for a “black box” warning to be added to Effient, alerting patients that the medication may cause cancer or growth of solid tumors.
EFFIENT LAWSUIT STATUS: The potential for future lawsuits on behalf of individuals diagnosed with cancer after using the blood thinner are being reviewed by Effient lawyers.
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MANUFACTURER: Eli Lilly.
OVERVIEW: Effient (prasugrel) is a new blood-thinner approved by the FDA in 2009 for the prevention of blood clots in people who have received angioplasty for clogged blood vessels.
Effient works by preventing blood platelets from sticking together, which some experts have speculated may inhibit the body’s natural defenses against tumors.
Following publication of a study in June 2010 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, which found that patients given Effient may be 60% more likely to develop certain solid-tumor cancers than those given Plavix, experts have called for new warnings and for doctors to limit prescriptions of Effient until more data is available, recommending that use be limited to a duration of weeks instead of months.
EFFIENT CANCER SIDE EFFECTS: According to data reviewed from clinical trials, which included 13,608 people, patients who take Effient had a higher rate of solid tumors, excluding some skin cancers and brain tumors, than those who received Plavix. The rate was 1.4% with Effient users compared to 0.9% of Plavix users.
Although Eli Lilly has maintained that it is unlikely that Effient side effects increase the risk of cancer, some experts have called for the FDA to add a “black box warning” and indicated that additional studies are necessary before the risk of cancer from Effient can be ruled out.
The potential for Effient cancer lawsuits are being reviewed by lawyers as a result of Eli Lilly’s possible failure to adequately research the side effects of Effient and warn about the potential risks associated with use of the medication.
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TOOK ME OFF BLEEDING MULTIPLE ULCERS CHAR BLACK STOOL VERY BAD SMEEL TROWING UP SAME I LOST 40 PERCENT OF MY BLOOD SPENT 7 DAYS IN HOSPITAL I DO NOT WISH THAT ON ANY BODY I U HAVE THIS PROBLEM GO TO ER OUR MAYBE DIE
Can I file a law suit for taking effient the doctor put me on it and I don’t won’t to keep taking it if it couse cancer becouse I took zecor and it damaged my liver
Are these risks increased in individuals having liver damage from statin drugs?
HOSP. MANY TIMES FOR BLEEDING UNCONTROLLABLE FROM EFFIENT
I have been on these medications for over ten years. After have quadruple bypass only to follow with six more heart related incidents requiring five stents. i have taken Effient and a few other blood thinner
medications which have caused me many side affects. Not knowing that the manufactures were aware of these possible death threatening side effects have caused me so much depression and weakness.
I recently had my blood drawn n the medic said my blood was stringy has anyone on effient reported this kind of problem n if I cute my self my blood coagulates on the top of my skin like pudding also my stents that were put in about a year ago are already clogging
I was placed on effient for a mild increase in troponins and stents. At the same time I developed severe cholycystitis at the same day. They refused to operate because I was on Effient. Afterwards I needed to be hospitalized 5 x’s for cholycystotomy tubes and multiple replacements pancreatitis, hepatitis, bleeding around my gallbladder, anemia, MRSA superinfection and cholydocolithisis. All
because I was on Effient. This lasted a year and I was unable to work
Experienced excessive prostrate bedding and am now being checked for tumors regularly ..was on it for 5 years but found the limit was 2 years. The episode left me w kidney
Damage..