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Tasigna Poses Atherosclerosis Amputations Risk

Anti-cancer chemotherapy drug Tasigna is causing Atherosclerosis and patients often require amputation to treat the disease

Thursday, May 3, 2018 - The warning to those taking Tasigna cannot be worded strongly enough. Sudden death can be one of its side effects. Anti-cancer chemotherapy drug Tasigna, given to cancer patients suffering from myeloid leukemia, has been shown to cause atherosclerosis, a serious and potentially deadly disease. The advanced stages of atherosclerosis can require a person's toes, foot or leg to be amputation. Cancer patients taking Tasigna should be alert to the early indications that they have developed the disease.

Atherosclerosis is a disease which restricts blood and nutrient-rich oxygen from reaching the body's extremities and causes plaque consisting of fat, cholesterol, and calcium to build up within the arteries thus narrowing the blood's passageway. The disease is commonly known as hardening of the arteries. Reduced blood flow to the toes and feet can result in necrosis, tissue death, to occur turning the toes and feet black and requiring amputation. In addition, a patient with atherosclerosis is prone to having a stroke or a heart attack if a small chunk of plaque becomes dislodged and travels to a major artery and becomes stuck causing a blockage. When this is the case, sudden death often occurs.

Atherosclerosis, like high blood pressure, is considered a silent killer as it is unlikely one would suspect they have the disease until it has reached an advanced, irreversible stage of at least 70% blockage. Early Warning signs that you have PAD can include unnatural leg pain as a result of exertions, legs, and feet aching, numbness and tingling. If ignored the disease can advance to foot and leg sores that do not heal normally, discolored and thickened toenails, and a lack of energy and a lack of sexual desire.

Overt warning signs that atherosclerosis is affecting the heart are chest pain and palpitations, and shortness of breath indicating a lack of blood flowing to the heart. Atherosclerosis in the arteries leading to the heart can cause a heart attack and instant death. Atherosclerosis can also result in a paralyzing stroke. Indications include confusion and amnesia. Atherosclerosis affecting the brain can be mistaken for Alzheimer's disease as a blockage restricts the blood and oxygen that the brain needs to function properly.

Heart disease and atherosclerosis is nothing new. Atherosclerosis affects approximately 10 million people and is treatable but irreversible according to The National Institute of Health. Chances are a patient with atherosclerosis will not even know they have the deadly disease until too late. Tasigna patients should be checked for atherosclerosis as a routine cancer follow-up. Such testing is as simple as contrasting blood pressure in various parts of the body.

Cancer patients that have taken Tasigna and have developed atherosclerosis and the loved ones who have died from Tasigna-related strokes and heart attacks, can hire a Tasigna atherosclerosis attorney and sue the maker Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation for reimbursement of medical expenses, lost wages and pain and suffering.

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