A new legal front opens with the case of Androcur, this miracle pill prescribed for years to treat endometriosis, acne, hair loss or even as a contraceptive method, but which is the origin of brain tumors (meningiomas) in hundreds of women. According to information from Worlda complaint against It focuses on five criminal offenses: administration of a harmful substance, involuntary harm to the person, danger to others, failure to report an adverse effect and aggravated deception.
“The seriousness of the medical situation and the number of victims justify the prosecutor of the Paris judicial court opening a judicial investigation and organizing a large trial for the Androcur victims”estimates Charles Joseph-Oudin, Amaeva’s lawyer, that today it has more than 1,000 members. In his office, there is a room dedicated to each major health scandal related to drugs: Mediator, Dépakine and already 250 Androcur files. Several complaints are ready to be filed after Amavea, still criminally, but individually, by victims of Androcur and other progestins.
They all tell the same stories. Gynecologists or endocrinologists who prescribe medicine without alerting the patient about the risk of meningioma, the appearance of symptoms (headache, vision problems, etc.), the discovery of tumors after a brain MRI, the risky surgical intervention to remove tumors, the disabling consequences (fatigue , headaches, vision loss). or hearing, neurocognitive disorders, epilepsy, etc.) several years after the operation.
Early warnings
Some 2,578 women underwent surgery for a meningioma due to taking a progestin drug between 2009 and 2018, according to official data from pharmacoepidemiology studies led by Epi-Phare, a structure created at the end of 2018 by the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Products. Sanitary. (ANSM) and the National Medical Insurance Fund. The causal relationship between taking Androcur and the disorders developed by the victims has already been established in thirty legal expert reports. Each time, they question the delayed reaction of the laboratory and health authorities, despite early warnings, to correctly inform patients and prescribers about the risks of meningioma related to taking Androcur.
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