dilantin and lung cancer

Posted By Carl B on September 07, 1998 at 22:33:40:







My wife had an aneurism (aneurysm) and subsequent brain surgery. She was prescribed dilantin for seizure control. About six months after her surgery she started having seizures again. The neurosurgen brought her back up to maximum dosage and she continued to have seizures so they told her to come to the hospital. They started her on intravenus dilantin and she still had seizures. After three days of this they decided to call in a specialist who took my wife off of dilantin. One week after she was able to leave the hospital she developed pleuralsy. Three weeks later she had full blown lung cancer(oat cell).Do you know of any familar cases of drug overdose of dilantin and is it possible for this type of drug to cause oat cell cancer?