Humira or Remicade May Triple Risk of Cancer
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — Rheumatoid arthritis patients taking Humira or Remicade face triple the risk of developing several kinds of cancer and double the risk of getting serious infections, a study led by the Mayo Clinic found.The analysis builds on previous reports about the risks associated with Abbott Laboratories’ Humira and Centocor’s Remicade. But the earlier research focused mostly on one kind of cancer — lymphoma — and infections such as tuberculosis and pneumonia.
The new study found an apparent link to other cancers, too, including skin, gastrointestinal, breast and lung tumors. It also quantifies the risks and says high doses appear to be the riskiest.
While the drugs’ packaging information mentions some of the risks, the manufacturers said the new study does not prove that the medication is at fault, and they said the research was flawed.
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Humira or Remicade May Triple Risk of Cancer
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>From 2001 until December 2005, my husband took Remicade, Enbrel, and Humria for RA. In February 2005 he was diagnosed with monoclonal protein in his blood. Then, on March 8, 2007, he was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin’s Mantle Cell Lymphoma. He began taking the drugs before Johnson and Johnson, i.e. Centocor, Abbott, and Amgen/Wyeth announced that TNF Inhibitors could cause Lymphoma. Upon diagnosis, my husband was given 6 to 8 months to live; however, he had a Stem Cell Transplant on August 27, 2007, at Wake Forest Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC. We are still waiting to hear if he is going to live or die. His last CT Scan still shows tumors in his abdominal area. Our family and especially my husband have been and are still going through a nightmare over these drugs. All RA victims need to be aware of what these TNF Inhibitors can do to them. My husband is only 58. This should not be happening to him.
Through our experience with these drugs, we have learned that if someone is a victim of deadly Lymphoma from taking these drugs, there is no recourse. Doctors won’t help because the drug companies treat them to luxurious trips and vacations so the doctors will prescribe the drugs to patients. Furthermore, hospitals won’t help because these drug companies are benefactors on building and equipment projects for the hospitals. Therefore, families just continue to suffer over the results of these drugs. We hired an attorney who found these facts for us.
We know these drugs caused this deadly Lymphoma in my husband. He and his sister are within one year in age, they both have the same genes and the same degree of RA. Lewis was treated with these three drugs and his sister wasn’t treated with the drugs. Lewis has Non- Hodgkin’s Mantle Cell Lymphoma and his sister doesn’t have it. Unique case, proof that the drugs caused the Lymphoma in my husband. His doctor has written three letters stating that he believes that the TNF Inhibitors caused the Lymphoma because his sister did not take the drugs and she is fine.
The truth about TNF Inhibitors should be shared with RA victims. Remicade, Enbrel, and Humria are KILLER drugs. This is not fiction; this is a man’s life. One life is One too many.
Nancy C. Sexton
>From 2001 until December 2005, my husband took Remicade, Enbrel, and Humria for RA. In February 2005 he was diagnosed with monoclonal protein in his blood. Then, on March 8, 2007, he was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin’s Mantle Cell Lymphoma. He began taking the drugs before Johnson and Johnson, i.e. Centocor, Abbott, and Amgen/Wyeth announced that TNF Inhibitors could cause Lymphoma. Upon diagnosis, my husband was given 6 to 8 months to live; however, he had a Stem Cell Transplant on August 27, 2007, at Wake Forest Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC. We are still waiting to hear if he is going to live or die. His last CT Scan still shows tumors in his abdominal area. Our family and especially my husband have been and are still going through a nightmare over these drugs. All RA victims need to be aware of what these TNF Inhibitors can do to them. My husband is only 58. This should not be happening to him.
Through our experience with these drugs, we have learned that if someone is a victim of deadly Lymphoma from taking these drugs, there is no recourse. Doctors won’t help because the drug companies treat them to luxurious trips and vacations so the doctors will prescribe the drugs to patients. Furthermore, hospitals won’t help because these drug companies are benefactors on building and equipment projects for the hospitals. Therefore, families just continue to suffer over the results of these drugs. We hired an attorney who found these facts for us.
We know these drugs caused this deadly Lymphoma in my husband. He and his sister are within one year in age, they both have the same genes and the same degree of RA. Lewis was treated with these three drugs and his sister wasn’t treated with the drugs. Lewis has Non- Hodgkin’s Mantle Cell Lymphoma and his sister doesn’t have it. Unique case, proof that the drugs caused the Lymphoma in my husband. His doctor has written three letters stating that he believes that the TNF Inhibitors caused the Lymphoma because his sister did not take the drugs and she is fine.
The truth about TNF Inhibitors should be shared with RA victims. Remicade, Enbrel, and Humria are KILLER drugs. This is not fiction; this is a man’s life. One life is One too many.
humira is a killer.it took away alove one with every systom it can have.....lawsuit pending
my mother took humira for ra and lymphoma was diagnose in a year after teatment it went into remission but came back as thoat cancer and she pass away we have an attorney.
My fiancee was on remicaide and methotextrate for one year. It had nearly killed him. We are still seeing countless doctors to see what all damage this wicked drug has caused my fiancee. He didn't have all these problems until he got put on the remicaide and I have tons of photos of skin ulcers that drug has caused. He was already fighting for his life with the ankylosing spondylitis, now we have to deal wiith all the side effects remicaide has caused.
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