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Given intravenously, Kadcyla courses through the body, looking for breast-cancer cells with a distinguishing feature: a high number of a particular protein, called HER2, on their surface.
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If everything is okay, they go to another part of the building where the chemotherapy treatment is given intravenously to them while they sit in lounge chairs.
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However, Packer says he is unsure that any therapy given intravenously for 24 hours, as all these drugs are, can be expected to show a survival advantage long after patients leave the hospital.
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Treatment consists of antifungal agents given intravenously.
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Too much bleeding could be seen as outweighing efficacy, and newer pills could steal some of Avastin's thunder. (The drug must be given intravenously.) Data for PTK-787, a pill from Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) and Germany's Schering (nyse: SHR - news - people ), which also hits VEGF, will be presented at ASCO.
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He was given medicine intravenously to relieve the brain clot, and electric shocks were used to revive him but there was no substantial response.
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Reclast, from Novartis, is in the same chemical class as Fosamax and Actonel, but it must be given as an intravenously, directly into a vein.
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