Avastin
Avastin Off-Label Use, Eye Infection, Blindness Risk, Potential Lawsuit
Avastin Off-Label Use Injury Lawsuits. Avastin, a drug approved to treat certain cancers, has been associated with severe, painful, and often blinding eye infections among people who received it off-label via injection to treat wet, age-related macular degeneration. Avastin eye infection clusters and blindness have been … [Read more...] about Avastin Off-Label Use, Eye Infection, Blindness Risk, Potential Lawsuit
Avastin May Cause Blindness, Heart Attacks, Necrotizing Fasciitis, and other Serious Side Effects
Avastin Side Effects Injury Lawsuits. Have you or a loved one been harmed by the cancer drug Avastin? In December 2010, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced it would begin the process of removing the breast cancer indication from the ‘Avastin’ label, saying the benefits of the drug did not outweigh its risks. … [Read more...] about Avastin May Cause Blindness, Heart Attacks, Necrotizing Fasciitis, and other Serious Side Effects
FDA Gives Avastin Thumbs Down
The FDA Cited Avastin Serious Side Effect The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced its final decision to revoke Avastin's approval for breast cancer. In announcing its decision, the FDA cited Avastin's serious side effects, and a lack of evidence showing Avastin will either help them victims of metastatic breast cancer … [Read more...] about FDA Gives Avastin Thumbs Down
Infection Risk Prompts VA to Drop Avastin
Blinding Eye Infections Linked To Avastin. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will no longer use Avastin to treat age-related, wet macular degeneration until it finishes an investigation into blinding eye infections linked to the treatment. Doctors with the VA are being urged to use Lucentis, another - and more expensive - … [Read more...] about Infection Risk Prompts VA to Drop Avastin
Avastin Eye Treatment Infections
Eye Infections Linked to Avastin Eye Treatment. An off-label use of the cancer drug Avastin has been linked to serious eye infections that, in some cases, have resulted in permanent blindness. All of these eye infections occurred in people who received Avastin injections in the eye to treat wet age-related macular … [Read more...] about Avastin Eye Treatment Infections
Avastin Fails to Win Over FDA Panel
FDA Panel as Breast Cancer Treatment. For the second time in about a year, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) oncology panel has voted to reject Avastin as a breast cancer treatment. The 6-0 vote was taken yesterday, at the conclusion of a contentious and emotional hearing in which the maker of Avastin tried to persuade the … [Read more...] about Avastin Fails to Win Over FDA Panel
FDA Taking Hard Look at Avastin
Avastin as Breast Cancer Treatment. U.S. health regulators are questioning whether Avastin is really an effective treatment for breast cancer. A Food & Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel is scheduled to discuss Avastin tomorrow. Avastin was the first approved therapy designed to inhibit angiogenesis, the process by which new … [Read more...] about FDA Taking Hard Look at Avastin
Avastin Study Patients Develop Congestive Heart Failure
Avastin Study Patients. Enrollment in an Avastin clinical trial has been halted after six patients developed clinical congestive heart failure. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the trial protocol requires that enrollment stop if six or more cases of clinical congestive heart failure are seen in the first 200 … [Read more...] about Avastin Study Patients Develop Congestive Heart Failure
Avastin Study Confirms Gastrointestinal Perforations Risk
Avastin Risk of Gastrointestinal Perforations. A new Avastin study has confirmed the cancer drug's link with serious, life-threatening gastrointestinal perforations. According to researchers at Stony Brook University Medical Center in Long Island, New York, people taking ‘Avastin’ developed such perforations - holes in the … [Read more...] about Avastin Study Confirms Gastrointestinal Perforations Risk
Avastin Breast Cancer Approval Decision
A decision on whether or not Avastin should be approved to treat breast cancer could come soon from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Avastin, is already approved to treat lung and colon cancer, but members of an FDA advisory committee voted 5-4 against approving Avastin for breast cancer treatment in December. However, … [Read more...] about Avastin Breast Cancer Approval Decision
FDA Adds New Warnings to Avastin
Avastin May Cause RPLS. Genentech Inc. has added warnings about a rare brain condition called reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome, or RPLS, in patients using its cancer drug Avastin, the Food and Drug Administration said. The drug's label also now includes information about seven reports of patients who developed … [Read more...] about FDA Adds New Warnings to Avastin
