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FDA Revokes Avastin’s Breast Cancer Indication

November 22, 2011 | Filed under: Community News,Pharmaceutical companies news | Posted by:

DG Alert: The commissioner for the US Food and Drug Administration announced today she will revoke the breast cancer indication for Avastin (bevacizumab), citing “it is clear that women who take Avastin for metastatic breast cancer risk potentially life-threatening side effects” without proof of a benefit that would justify those risks.

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