Editor's Note: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on 2/22/08 approved the cancer drug Avastin for women with advanced breast cancer, going against the recommendation of its own advisory panel. Also see PJ's postscript at the end of this post for more details.
Avastin, a drug that’s shown great promise in slowing the progress of metastatic breast cancer, has been in the news again lately. No, not in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Nor even in American Cancer...
When the news broke December 5 that an FDA expert panel had voted 5-4 to reject Avastin (bevacizumab) as an approved breast cancer... Read more »
On Sunday, the New York Times ran an interesting article on Avastin, a drug that has been mentioned to me several times, as the latest... Read more »
Q. I have "triple negative" breast cancer - it's not estrogen-, progesterone-, or HER2-positive, so my treatment has so far been limited to... Read more »
My name is Doug Haberstroh, and this is the story of my wife Keri. Keri was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 at the age of 25. The... Read more »
Last month, amid the holiday rush and year-end preparations, the fight against breast cancer continued. A week before Christmas, many of us... Read more »
A recent review of clinical trials finds Avastin with chemo doubles a patient's odds of gastrointestinal perforations, particularly in those... Read more »
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials have recommended revoking approval of the medication Avastin (bevacizumab) for the treatment of... Read more »
The commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has revoked the approval of Avastin as a breast cancer drug. In June, an FDA advisory... Read more »
An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has overwhelmingly voted to withdrawal approval for the breast cancer drug Avastin. The... Read more »
The cancer drug Avastin does not appear to help men with late-stage prostate cancer live longer, researchers say. The drug is already used to treat... Read more »
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