In one study, 637 patients received standard chemotherapy plus radiation, and half also received Avastin.
The biotech is actually restricting Avastin sales now to cut down on unapproved use.
However, researchers from Johns Hopkins University will release their findings of an Avastin vs.
The main competition is not another company's drug but low doses of Genentech's cancer fighter Avastin.
But he notes that another trial to be announced today will test Avastin in adult blindness.
So the release of the NovoSeven reports as well as the two Avastin vs.
Analysts were blown away by the data and are now forecasting multibillion-dollar annual sales for Avastin.
's Avastin even when, in a clinical trial she led, the drug failed against the disease.
In a similar trial, years ago, Avastin had shrunk tumors in 9% of patients.
Doctors had told her Avastin together with chemotherapy drug Taxol could prolong her life.
Instead, investors are looking at the company's pipeline of new drugs, like cancer treatment Avastin.
Avastin is the first drug to make good on the promise of this idea.
Data for use of Avastin in breast cancer and colon cancer were also presented.
Fakhrai hopes to show that Lucanix increases survival far longer than drugs like Avastin and Erbitux.
Avastin failed in pancreatic cancer, but Pfizer hopes its Avastin-like pill, axitinib, will work.
And VEGF-Trap seemed to cause fewer bowel perforations, a big problem in the earlier Avastin study.
Genentech's Avastin was once seen as one of the most promising cancer fighters around.
In a late-stage clinical trial, Avastin failed to help patients with metastatic breast cancer.
Genentech is still planning a big trial of Avastin in front-line ovarian cancer, Porges said.
To resolve the debate, the federal National Eye Institute plans a giant Avastin-versus-Lucentis head-to-head trial.
But there is a significant risk in using Avastin for treatment of lung cancer.
While Avastin had failed to show much efficacy in large studies, T-DM1 looked incredibly promising.
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One possible explanation is that "a more rapid regrowth occurs when you stop Avastin, " he says.
Avastin will remain legal for the treatment of colon, lung, brain, and kidney cancers.
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Avastin has now failed to extend the lives of breast cancer patients in three giant trials.
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Robust sales of the cancer drug Avastin lifted Genentech earnings in the third quarter.
The number of reports of counterfeited injectable biological drugs, such as Avastin, is still small.
Two recent studies found that Avastin had some value in treating metastatic breast cancer.
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It can stop Genentech from saying that Avastin is useful against breast cancer.
Indeed, the NECC scandal has been cited as an example in which compounded Avastin may be worrisome.
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