Pfizer Inc. (PFE)’s Prempro menopause drug wasn’t the cause of a West Virginia woman’s breast cancer, a jury ruled today in rejecting her claim for damages. Jurors in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, found that hormone therapy medicines made by Pfizer’s Wyeth and Upjohn units weren’t a cause in the development of Leah Royce Hines’s breast cancer. “While we have great sympathy for Mrs. Hines and her family, this verdict affirms the fact that science cannot determine what caused or contributed to any individual woman’s breast cancer, except in rare circumstances where genetics plays a role,” Chris Loder, a Pfizer spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement.
