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Woman takes stand in hormone lawsuit.

Europe Intelligence Wire

| August 31, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From AFX Europe (Focus))

LITTLE ROCK (AFX) - A Benton breast-cancer patient suing the drug maker Wyeth, claiming the company's hormone-replacement drug Prempro caused her illness, told federal jurors Thursday about her chemotherapy treatments and showed them photos of how it changed her appearance.

The photographs of Linda Reeves showed her as a child, an adult and as a cancer victim -- bald but wearing a hat. Reeves says Prempro is responsible for her illness, and that she wouldn't have taken the drug if she had known it might cause cancer.

Reeves, 67, said she took the widely prescribed estrogen-progestin combination for years to prevent …

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