Karina Basso  |  November 21, 2014

Category: Legal News

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da Vinci hysterectomy lawsuit

A pair of Massachusetts doctors are leading a movement within the medical community to ban power morcellators and are now criticizing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to allow these controversial surgical instruments to remain on the market.

Dr. Hooman Noorchashm and his wife Dr. Amy Reed are leading the charge against power morcellators, a surgical instrument that allegedly increases a patient’s risk of developing uterine cancer during myomectomy and hysterectomy surgeries. According to the couple, Reed was diagnosed with metastasized leiomyosarcoma last year after she underwent a laparoscopic hysterectomy during which a power morcellator was used.

Since her diagnosis, she and her husband have shaken up the national medical community and sparked debate about the future of morcellation surgery within gynecological practices.

On Nov. 1, Noorchashm wrote “An Upcoming Ethical Failure at the FDA,” an email to the FDA blasting the agency for a forthcoming decision to not issue a power morcellator recall. Noorchashm has stated that the FDA’s alleged plan to ignore the safety issues surrounding power morcellators and the risk of morcellator cancer will come at the cost of women’s health in order to cater to the gynecological industry.

In his email to the FDA on the dangers of continued use of power morcellators, Dr. Noorchaschm stated:

“Let the record note that the affected have warned you, the regulators, of an AVOIDABLE mortal harm to women in the US and world-wide and that you stand complacent and very clearly interested in providing the gynecological industry an opportunity to recover – instead of protecting patient safety definitively. This orientation is a very terrible violation of the public’s trust in the agency to first and foremost protect it from harm.”

Other women who have undergone a laparoscopic hysterectomy or myomectomy surgery and, like Reed, were later diagnosed with some form of uterine cancer from an undiagnosed sarcoma, are now seeking legal remedies by filing a morcellator cancer lawsuit or joining a morcellator cancer class action lawsuit.

Morcellation Cancer

When a woman undergoes a myomectomy to remove fibroids or a hysterectomy to remove her uterus, it is possible that a power morcellator will be used to drill a hole into the surgical area and shred the tissue, which will then be extracted through a key-hole method.

However, the risk of unknowingly spreading cancer using the morcellation technique is fairly high. The FDA and other independent researchers have estimated that 1 in every 350 women undergoing laparoscopic morcellator hysterectomy or myomectomy to remove uterine fibroids are likely to also have an undiagnosed sarcoma.

If a power morcellator hits and shreds a sarcoma, the cancerous cells can then spread and increase a person’s diagnosis from stage one to stage three cancer. It is this morcellator cancer risk that Reed and Norrchaschm are speaking out against and why they and others within the medical community are seeking to recall and ban power morcellators on a national scale.

Thousands of women who have undergone a laparascopic morcellation myomectomy or hysterectomy and later developed uterine cancer have already filed morcellator cancer lawsuits or have joined morcellator cancer class action lawsuits against the manufacturers of power morcellator products.

Do YOU have a legal claim? Fill out the form on this page now for a free, immediate, and confidential case evaluation. The morcellation cancer attorneys who work with Top Class Actions will contact you if you qualify to let you know if an individual lawsuit or class action lawsuit is best for you. [In general, morcellator cancer lawsuits are filed individually by each plaintiff and are not class actions.] Hurry — statutes of limitations may apply.

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