Facts & Figures - Hormone Replacement Therapy Attorneys, Prempro, Prescription Drugs, Breast Cancer

There are an estimated 6 million women taking the prescription drug Prempro.

It is estimated that nearly 40% of all American women are taking or have taken some form of hormone therapy in their lifetimes.

A major national study indicated that for every 10,000 healthy, postmenopausal women taking PremPro for a year, there would be eight additional cases of breast cancer, seven heart attacks, eight strokes and eight blood clots in the lungs. In 2002, more than 6 million women were taking Prempro. Statistically, that translates into:

480,000 additional breast cancer cases.
420,000 more heart attacks.
480,000 more strokes.
480,000 more blood clot cases.

More than 70 million prescriptions are written annually for hormone replacement therapies, making them huge business for drug corporations like Wyeth, the maker of Premarin and Prempro.

The National Cancer Institute also reported in another study that ovarian cancer risk in postmenopausal women increased to 220% if they took estrogen for more than 20 years. More Prempro research findings, click here.

In one year in every 10,000 older women using this estrogen plus progestin treatment, 45 women might develop dementia, compared to 22 women in every 10,000 older women using no hormones.