article_snippet.sent: Trials show Avastin, which is used in several other cancers, gives women around four months’ extra life.
article_snippet.sent: Trials show Avastin, which is used in several other cancers, gives women about four months’ extra life .
article_snippet.sent: Each year an estimated 600 women with advanced cervical cancer could benefit from Avastin, costing £3,370 for a month’s treatment.
article_snippet.sent: The drug’s use was accelerated by the US Food and Drug Administration which approved Avastin plus chemotherapy for advanced cervical cancer in August 2014.
article_snippet.sent: Avastin, which is also known as bevacizumab and widely used in patients with bowel cancer, is the first new treatment since the chemotherapy drug topotecan was approved in 2006.
article_snippet.sent: It is very welcome indeed that when Avastin is added to chemotherapy Avastin prolongs survival by approximately four months.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Robert Music, chief executive of Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, said ‘This regulatory decision for Avastin is positive news.
article_snippet.sent: Trial findings show Avastin combined with chemotherapy can extend the lives of women with advanced cervical cancer by 26 per cent compared with chemotherapy alone.
article_snippet.sent: Avastin works by blocking the blood supply to the tumour, starving the tumour of oxygen and nutrients.
article_snippet.sent: Avastin is an antibody that precisely targets and inhibits VEGF.