While the Arkansas jury are still out in the first Prempro trial, the second is well under way.
Wyeth's hormone-therapy drugs Premarin and Prempro caused breast cancer in a 67-year-old Ohio woman, her attorney told jurors at the start of a trial in Philadelphia.
Jennie Nelson of Dayton took the drugs for more than six years before developing the disease, which led to chemotherapy, radiation and surgery to remove both breasts, attorney Kenneth Suggs told a Common Pleas Court jury yesterday in his opening statement.
Nelson's use of Wyeth's drugs for menopausal symptoms "was a factual cause" of her breast cancer, said Suggs, of the firm Janet, Jenner & Suggs in Columbia, S.C. "Many, many, many studies" support her claim, he said.
The case is one of more than 5,000 scheduled for trial over Premarin and Prempro.
A jury in federal court in Little Rock, Ark., began hearing a similar case last month against Wyeth and is now deliberating a verdict.
Wyeth, based in Madison, N.J., contends it conducted several studies of the drugs without turning up conclusive evidence linking them to cancer.
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