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When the FDA approved Genentech's colorectal cancer drug Avastin last week, it also validated a cancer-fighting strategy proposed more than 30 years ago. Avastin is the first in what researchers hope will be a whole new class of drugs called angiogenesis inhibitors, which attack tumors by thwarting their ability to create blood vessels--thus starving cancer cells of oxygen and nutrients. In trials, Avastin has been shown to give patients, on average, an additional five months of life. Cost of a 10month course of treatment: about...
Though the FDA said there is low statistical evidence of side-effects with Avastin, they have said that in some cases, side-effects may exist...
...risk of these side-effects may not deter cancer patients from experimenting with Avastin...
According to the FDA, patients treated with Avastin in conjunction with chemotherapy drugs tended to live an average of five months longer than patients only receiving chemotherapy...
...Though Avastin has only been approved to treat colorectal cancer, current testing incudes treating patients with other forms of cancer...