Did you take diabetes drug Actos? Do you now have bladder cancer?
If so, you may be due a substantial financial reward for your injury losses, a reward achieved by an Actos side effects lawsuit provided by LawsuitActos.com.
Diabetes patients have enough trouble without a diabetes drug causing cancer. But that could be the case with Actos, which treats Type 2 diabetes yet also is linked to a ghastly Actos side effects injury: bladder cancer.
Actos now has a warning about this on its label, courtesy of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Health care professionals are warned that Actos should not be used for patients with active bladder cancer. (This is called closing the barn door after the cows have gone.) They’re also told to use Actos cautiously for patients with a history of bladder cancer.
But that same FDA approved Actos in 1999, and it still allows Actos to be sold, despite studies showing that using it for a year can lead to increased risk of bladder cancer.
How do you know if you have bladder cancer if you haven’t been diagnosed by a doctor?
Symptoms include noticeable blood or a red color in your urine, and the need to urinate frequently, but in small amounts. You also may experience pain while urinating, as well as abdominal or back pain. Such symptoms may subside and then reoccur, so don’t discount the chance of cancer just because redness in your urine clears up.
If you suspect you may have bladder cancer, see a physician immediately and get a diagnosis. And if you do have bladder cancer after having taken Actos, then see a defective drug lawyer with LawsuitActos.com, a legal service which can provide a defective drug lawyer in states across America.
Such an Actos lawyer or defective drug attorney can fight for your legal right to claim fitting financial compensation for your Actos side effects losses, including your medical costs, your lost present and future salary and your pain and suffering as a result of your defective drug injury.
How do you get started? That’s simple. Fill out and submit the free case evaluation form on this page, or call toll-free to 1-800-523-9933. You’ll get prompt attention from a legal professional to help you weigh your prospects for a successful Actos defective drug lawsuit.
The creator of Actos certainly can afford to pay for the damages it causes through its negligence. That’s Takeda, Japan’s largest pharmaceutical company, whose American arm is Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
Takeda has made billions of dollars from Actos since it went on the market in 1999. In one recent year alone, Takeda had Actos sales of $4.5 billion. And last year, over 2 million Americans were prescribed Actos or a product with its active ingredient, pioglitazone.
These also can include drugs which are combined with pioglitazone under the names Actoplus Met, Actoplus Met XR and Duetact. No generic Actos is on the market. In fact, generic Actos will not be available until 2012.
Actos’ popularity has stemmed in part from claims that it’s safer than a well known competitor, Avandia. Avandia has been linked to heart attack risks.
Yet Takeda’s own study revealed that Type 2 diabetes patients who take Actos for more than one year face a heightened risk of bladder cancer. And despite this, Takeda keeps selling its defective drug. As noted, Actos is a big money maker, even if it does produce dangerous Actos side effects.
But it’s no longer sold in France, where Actos’ active ingredient, pioglitazone, has been banned. And in neighboring Germany, Actos no longer can be prescribed to new patients.
Yet in America, Actos’ usage is unchecked and unbridled, aside from mild safety warnings of Actos side effects. Sort of makes you angry, doesn’t it?
Don’t get mad. Get even.
If you took Actos for over a year and now suffer bladder cancer, you have a legal right to fight back. You can engage an Actos lawyer or defective drug attorney through LawsuitActos.com and seek the money you deserve for your injury losses via an Actos lawsuit.
Don’t hesitate. Don’t wait. Don’t delay. Your state’s statute of limitations may be ticking down on the time you have left to pursue an Actos side effects lawsuit.
So give us a call or a click today. After all, you won’t pay, since our firm only is paid if your case wins, and then as a portion of the settlement.
It’s time to fight back. It’s time to claim your legal rights. It’s time to let us put the wheels of justice in motion for you and your family in a defective drug Actos lawsuit.