TESTIMONY. On Androcur, she developed five tumors: "Today, I have the right to know"

Emmanuelle Huet-Mignaton, resident of Bretteville-sur-Odon (Calvados), has created an association for helping the victims of Androcur. This medication, prescribed, among other things, to treat endometriosis, caused it brain tumors. She testifies.

Emmanuelle Huet-Mignaton has decided to take action. By creating the AMAVEA association , which already brings together more than 80 people, it intends to go up all "the chain of responsibilities" which led her to take Androcur, the medication of the German laboratory Bayer, which would be at the origin of its current state .

In 2013, this native of the Orne, a financial analyst at the Banque de France in Paris, is delighted to have obtained her change in Caen, a city of her studies, then found a pretty house in Bretteville-sur-Odon.

Five tumors detected

But in 2015, joy gave way to the worries: “I had trouble working, to concentrate. I was always tired. This was first put on the account of a more or less high depression. »»

He had to wait until August 2017, and a "right hand that has become inert", to know the real reason for his state of health. "By passing an MRI, we discovered that I had five meningiomas (tumors of the meninges, most often" benign ") , one, one, large as an orange. Read more

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