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Evolving Chemotherapy for Advanced and Metastatic Gastric Cancer

Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer worldwide, and the second leading cause of death worldwide.  The disease is often diagnosed at an advanced or metastatic stage, not curable by surgical… more »

Center for Oncology Research & Treatment--Dallas, TX

Avastin's Results Do Not Justify the Cost

archcrone wrote 4 hours ago: Two years ago, I mentioned once, that the pricy price tag of Avastin was bullshit. Genetech doubled … more »

Tags: Health Care, Andrew von Eschenbach, breast cancer, FDA, gentech, HOPE, Price Gouging

Avastin significantly improves survival in metastatic colorectal cancer

crimsoncanary wrote 4 days ago: Phase III data presented at the World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer show Avastin significantly … more »

Tags: kinase, bevacizumab, Genentech, kinase, Roche, vegf

NICE terminate review of Avastin/Erbitux regimens due to lack of data

crimsoncanary wrote 6 days ago: The UK NICE have announced that review of Avastin and Erbitux for the following indications have bee … more »

Tags: kinase, bevacizumab, cetuximab, Erbitux, Guidance, Nice

Jen's Update: Avastin/CPT-11 Round 1 Complete, Jen Back Home — 2 comments

buelahman wrote 2 weeks ago: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008 09:52 PM, CDT Subscribe to journal update notification Avastin/CPT-11 Rou … more »

Tags: Jen's Update

Evolving Chemotherapy for Advanced and Metastatic Gastric Cancer — 1 comment

bmirtsching wrote 3 weeks ago: Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer worldwide, and the second leading cause of death wor … more »

Tags: Gastric Cancer, cetuximab, docetaxel, taxotere, cisplatin, Platinol, 5-FU, Gastric Cancer, stomach cancer

Deadly brain tumors and a common virus

Ken Currier wrote 3 weeks ago: Is it possible to stop brain tumor growth by attacking a common virus? Those deadly brain tumors kno … more »

Tags: Brain games, health, Neurology, brain tumors, Cytomegalovirus, glioblastomas, Sen Ted Kennedy, Virus

Metastatic Lung Cancer Survival Improved by the Addition of Cetuximab to Chemotherapy: FLEX Study — 2 comments

bmirtsching wrote 1 month ago: The results of the FLEX study of cisplatin + vinorelbine (Navelbine) with or without cetuximab (Erbi … more »

Tags: lung cancer, bevacizumab, lung cancer, metastatic lung cancer, cetuximab, Erbitux, Stage IV, Stage IIIb, FLEX Study

War on cancer patients?

katbur wrote 1 month ago: It is amazing the political ramifications that some healthcare issues can raise. Remember folks, al … more »

Tags: Charles Grassley

Miscalculating Public Health: A Response on Statins and More — 2 comments

Gershom Gorenberg wrote 1 month ago: In a previous post, The Politics of Measurement: Miscalculating Public Health , I wrote of the risk … more »

Tags: GERSHOM, statins, Public Health, Shannon Brownlee, Gary Ginsburg, human papilloma virus, vaccine, Ezetimibe, LDL

Avastin Added to Chemo Helps Women With Advanced Breast Cancer

Theresa Tamkins wrote 1 month ago: SATURDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — Adding the drug Avastin to chemotherapy lengthened progres … more »

Tags: Breast Cancer, health news, breast cancer

Avastin significantly increases breast cancer patients chance of living without disease progression

crimsoncanary wrote 1 month ago: Phase III data presented at ASCO shows that avastin (bevacizumab) significantly improves tprogressio … more »

Tags: kinase, Genentech, vegf, Roche, bevacizumab

Wyeth initiate phase III trial of torisel and avastin Combo

crimsoncanary wrote 1 month ago: Wyeth have initiated a Phase III trial of torisel (temsirolimus) and Avastin (bevacizumab) Combinati … more »

Tags: kinase, vegf, Genentech, Wyeth, Roche, bevacizumab, Torisel, temsirolimus

Genentech clinical updates (full data to be presented at ASCO)

crimsoncanary wrote 1 month ago: Multiple updates on Avastin clinical progress to be presented as ASCO Updates on HER 2 program (Herc … more »

Tags: kinase, vegf, kinase, vegf, Herceptin, bevacizumab, Pertuzumab, trastuzumab

Avastin/Tarceva Combination May Be No More Effective Than Avastin Monotherapy

Paul wrote 2 months ago: The purpose of this single arm, multicenter Phase II clinical trial was to assess the activity and t … more »

Tags: Clinical Trial Results, Clinical Trial Results, ovarian cancer, bevacizumab, Tarceva, erlotinib, vegf, EGFR, phase ii

Avastin Used in Combination with Taxol and Paraplatin Will Become the Clinical Gold Standard Treatment by 2011

Paul wrote 2 months ago: “Avastin Used in Combination with Taxol and Paraplatin Will Become the Clinical Gold Standard … more »

Tags: Treatment Overview, Best Practice, bevacizumab, ovarian cancer

Health coverage urged for new cancer drug

carolynovell wrote 2 months ago: In a recent article published by the Toronto Sun, the cancer-fighting drug, Avastin is at the centre … more »

Tags: Cancer in the news, Cancer Drugs, chemotherapy health coverage, colorectal cancer

Links of the Day: February 25, 2008 — 3 comments

nvr1983 wrote 4 months ago: Yahoo! News: Obesity more dangerous than terrorism: experts- This seems like an argument that someon … more »

Tags: Cancer, Links of the Day, obesity, Insurance, India, Clinical Trials, Information Technology, smoking, DNA test

Genentech Upside Confirmed after FDA Avastin decision

danielteper wrote 4 months ago: As anticipated by Biobusinessblog.com on January 1 (Genentech: Biotech Stock of 200 and February 10 … more »

Tags: Equities, Oncology, AVADO, breast cancer, Colon Cancer, FDA, Genentech, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis

Pharma News 2_23

Steve Woodruff wrote 4 months ago: Novartis Pharma US CEO Alex Gorsky resigns. Genentech’s Avastin and breast cancer - meets stud … more »

Tags: Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices, Medicine, Pharma News, Pfizer, novartis, Genentech, Lilly