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Original Source: Intravitreal Bevacizumab Pretreatment for Reducing Preretinal Hemorrhage in Diabetic Vitrectomy
Treatment of severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) may require the use of silicone oil for long-term retinal tamponade to prevent recurrent retinal detachment. Massive bleeding during surgery before proper release of traction and peri-silicone oil proliferation after surgery were major causes of surgical failure. The likelihood of reproliferation rises in the presence of significant preretinal blood. It is therefore crucial to reduce intraoperative and postoperative p...
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Avastin unraveled by stratification study, Roche seeks validation
Reanalysis of Avastin registration trial brings Roche strategy for making universal Avastin use in oncology into question again. Study suggests less than half of Avastin treated colorectal cancer pat...
Avastin Reduces Brain Necrosis from Radiation (CME/CE)
BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- Patients who have radiation treatment following surgery for brain cancer may have less radiation-induced tissue necrosis if they are also treated with bevacizumab (Avastin),...
ASCO: continued Avastin after progression increases overall survival in colon cancer
In metastatic colorectal cancer patients who had a follow-up round of second-line Roche/Genentech’s Avastin (bevacizumab) after their disease worsened following initial Avastin plus first-line c...
Avastin Wins FDA Approval For Colorectal Cancer Treatment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved use of Roche's Avastin for patients with colorectal cancer that has gotten worse despite treatment with the medication. This new approval will...
Roche's Avastin Approved For Colon Cancer Treatment By FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved use of Roche's Avastin for patients with colorectal cancer that has gotten worse despite treatment with the medication. This new approval will...
Continued Avastin Extends Survival After First Progression in Advanced Colorectal Cancer
Combined second-line treatment with Avastin® (bevacizumab) and standard chemotherapy extends survival in patients with advanced colorectal cancer who have received first-line combined Avastin treatme...
Lilly's Alimta misses maintenance therapy endpoint in NSCLC
Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE:LLY) said maintenance therapy with Alimta pemetrexed plus Avastin bevacizumab missed the primary endpoint of improving median overall survival (OS) vs. Avastin alone in the Pha...
New England Compounding Center: the Avastin/Lucentis connection
Long-time readers of the blog are aware of my ongoing fixation on the repackaging of the colorectal cancer drug Avastin for injection into the eye to treat wet age related macular degeneration. Genent...
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FDA. Once on 'fast track,' avastin now derailed.
The effect of bevacizumab on colon anastomotic healing in rats.
PURPOSE: The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of angiogenesis inhibition by bevacizumab, a monoclonal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) antibody, on the healing process of c...
PURPOSE: Evaluate the use of bevacizumab (avastin) injected around valve body intraoperatively versus the use of mitomycin C as a single intraoperative application at the site of Ahmed valve implantat...
PURPOSE:: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of bevacizumab (Avastin), an antivascular endothelial growth factor agent, injected at the end of surgery for preventing postoperative recu...
Changing End Points in Breast-Cancer Drug Approval - The Avastin Story.
In December 2007, the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) met to discuss the risks and benefits of Genentech's Avastin (bevacizumab) for use in combinat...
