California woman indicates she developed a “golf ball-sized” brain tumor from Depo-Provera, after receiving the birth control shots for years.
California woman was unaware her meningioma was caused by Depo-Provera injections until a study was published earlier this year, resulting in widespread publicity about the brain tumor risks.
Intricate brain surgery was required to remove a meningioma tumor caused by the Depo-Provera birth control shot, leaving a California woman with life-long impairments.
Although Pfizer placed Depo-Provera brain tumor warnings on Canadian labels in 2015, lawsuit indicates drugmaker did not provide the same information to women in U.S.
Following years of hormonal birth control shots, intracranial meningiomas developed that required repeated surgeries and radiation treatments to remove the brain tumors.
Indiana woman indicates that side effects of Depo-Provera shots caused a large meningioma to develop, alleging Pfizer failed to adequately warn about the brain tumor risks.
Recently filed lawsuit questions why Pfizer updated Depo-Provera warning label in Europe about the meningioma brain tumor side effects, but has failed to provide same warnings to U.S. consumers and doctors.
Lawsuit claims Depo-Provera side effects caused the development of a Grade 1 and Grade 2 Sylvian fissure meningioma that required brain surgery to remove.
Decades of medical research and reported Depo-Provera side effects suggest that Pfizer knew or should have known that its birth control shot increases the risks of meningioma brain tumors.
