Re: Kicking Wyeth Habit Saves Women's Lives--Study

[Guest guest]

I don't know whether you are aware of it- but the women in the study had defective "genes", and were married to older Israeli men with defective "genes" who watched too much TV.

Kicking Wyeth Habit Saves Women's Lives--Study

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1217-25.htmPublished on Sunday, December 17, 2006 by CommonDreams.org Kicking Wyeth Habit Saves Women's Lives--Study by Martha Rosenberg An editorial cartoon from the summer of 2002 shows a TV announcer leading a newscast with: "A major US drug maker is warning women if they stop hormone therapy abruptly, its stock price will fall." Wyeth, maker of Prempro and Premarin, has indeed seen its stock price fall since the news from a study presented at a breast cancer conference in San in December broke that breast cancer fell 7% from 2002 to 2003 and estrogen positive breast cancer, 15%, presumably because women went off HRT. And just as the initial Women's Health Initiative HRT findings drew a chorus of "yes buts" from those financially linked to HRT--the women in the study were "too old", took HRT too long, should have taken only one hormone, shouldn't have had heart disease--already spins and denials are coming out. Maybe the number of breast cancers hasn't dropped at all, opined experts quoted by ABC News Medical Unit, but mammograms have dropped. (Or the population dropped 15%--did they think of that?) Withdrawing hormones couldn't produce a decrease in breast cancer that quickly, say other sources though estrogen-fueled cancers can indeed regress, not form at all or not become mammogram detectable in three years, says New York Times science reporter Kolata. Others are ranting that news like this could scare women away from legitimate HRT uses. Many have just returned from the FDA hearings on antidepressant warnings where they said the same thing. Unfortunately, HRT loyalists have more than the M.D. Cancer Center study which broke the news to refute. A November study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found an even larger drop in breast cancer rates in California where there was also a larger drop in HRT use. And epidemiologists at the Northern California Cancer Center found breast cancer down 11% in 2004 using data from a National Cancer Institute program and from Kaiser Permanente. Despite the fact that HRT was found in 2002 to cause a 26% increased risk of breast cancer, 29% increased risk of heart attack, 41% increased risk of stroke, and 100% increased risk of blood clots, Wyeth continues to market Prempro and Premarin. Especially because it faces 3600 legal cases and withdrawing or discontinuing the drugs would be an admission of guilt. Not that they don't already look complicit. Testimony in an Arkansas breast cancer trial this year revealed that a Wyeth salesman wrote company executives in 2000, "The desire for increased sales has overruled our company's ethical responsibility to promote our products safely." He also testified that Wyeth Chairman and CEO Essner told his reps at a Prempro launch party the company was creating an "HRT revolution" that would keep women on the drug from menopause to death and that there should be "no boundaries, no limits to your selling effort." But the latest news makes it even tougher for Wyeth to plead ignorance. With 14,000 women who were expected to get breast cancer NOT GETTING IT as analysts now claim, quitting HRT practically looks like the cure. And what possible warning label could you put on a drug that is apparently so deadly and works so fast, anyway? That if you go off it, the manufacturer's stock price will fall?

[Guest guest]

LOL - that exlains it. And I would imagine that many of the women

also had family members with several diagnoses from the DSM bible.

If more people would kick the Big Pharma habit - we'd all be

healthier and live longer.

>

> I don't know whether you are aware of it- but the women in the

study had defective " genes " , and were married to older Israeli men

with defective " genes " who watched too much TV.

>

>

>

> Kicking Wyeth Habit Saves Women's Lives--Study

>

>

> http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1217-25.htm

>

> Published on Sunday, December 17, 2006 by CommonDreams.org

> Kicking Wyeth Habit Saves Women's Lives--Study

> by Martha Rosenberg

>

> An editorial cartoon from the summer of 2002 shows a TV announcer

> leading a newscast with: " A major US drug maker is warning women

if

> they stop hormone therapy abruptly, its stock price will fall. "

>

> Wyeth, maker of Prempro and Premarin, has indeed seen its stock

price

> fall since the news from a study presented at a breast cancer

> conference in San in December broke that breast cancer

fell

> 7% from 2002 to 2003 and estrogen positive breast cancer, 15%,

> presumably because women went off HRT.

>

> And just as the initial Women's Health Initiative HRT findings

drew a

> chorus of " yes buts " from those financially linked to HRT--the

women

> in the study were " too old " , took HRT too long, should have taken

> only one hormone, shouldn't have had heart disease--already spins

and

> denials are coming out.

>

> Maybe the number of breast cancers hasn't dropped at all, opined

> experts quoted by ABC News Medical Unit, but mammograms have

dropped.

> (Or the population dropped 15%--did they think of that?)

>

> Withdrawing hormones couldn't produce a decrease in breast cancer

> that quickly, say other sources though estrogen-fueled cancers

can

> indeed regress, not form at all or not become mammogram

detectable in

> three years, says New York Times science reporter Kolata.

>

> Others are ranting that news like this could scare women away

from

> legitimate HRT uses. Many have just returned from the FDA

hearings on

> antidepressant warnings where they said the same thing.

>

> Unfortunately, HRT loyalists have more than the M.D.

Cancer

> Center study which broke the news to refute. A November study in

the

> Journal of Clinical Oncology found an even larger drop in breast

> cancer rates in California where there was also a larger drop in

HRT

> use.

>

> And epidemiologists at the Northern California Cancer Center

found

> breast cancer down 11% in 2004 using data from a National Cancer

> Institute program and from Kaiser Permanente.

>

> Despite the fact that HRT was found in 2002 to cause a 26%

increased

> risk of breast cancer, 29% increased risk of heart attack, 41%

> increased risk of stroke, and 100% increased risk of blood clots,

> Wyeth continues to market Prempro and Premarin. Especially

because it

> faces 3600 legal cases and withdrawing or discontinuing the drugs

> would be an admission of guilt.

>

> Not that they don't already look complicit.

>

> Testimony in an Arkansas breast cancer trial this year revealed

that

> a Wyeth salesman wrote company executives in 2000, " The desire

for

> increased sales has overruled our company's ethical

responsibility to

> promote our products safely. " He also testified that Wyeth

Chairman

> and CEO Essner told his reps at a Prempro launch party the

> company was creating an " HRT revolution " that would keep women on

the

> drug from menopause to death and that there should be " no

boundaries,

> no limits to your selling effort. "

>

> But the latest news makes it even tougher for Wyeth to plead

> ignorance. With 14,000 women who were expected to get breast

cancer

> NOT GETTING IT as analysts now claim, quitting HRT practically

looks

> like the cure.

>

> And what possible warning label could you put on a drug that is

> apparently so deadly and works so fast, anyway? That if you go

off

> it, the manufacturer's stock price will fall?

>

[Guest guest]

I bet they smoked pot, too.

<g>

>

> I don't know whether you are aware of it- but the women in the study

had defective " genes " , and were married to older Israeli men with

defective " genes " who watched too much TV.

>

>

>

> Kicking Wyeth Habit Saves Women's Lives--Study

>

>

> http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1217-25.htm

>

>

[Guest guest]

does anyone have any info on the 3000 lawsuits? Mostly class action or not? Attorneys??? thanksDebi <fightingautism@...> wrote: I bet they smoked pot, too.<g>>> I don't know whether you are aware of it- but the women in the studyhad defective "genes", and were married to older Israeli men withdefective "genes" who watched

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