Comments on: A Hard Sell? Avastin As A Breast Cancer Med http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/12/a-hard-sell-avastin-as-a-breast-cancer-med/ News, Comment and Conversation Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:32:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: TOdd http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/12/a-hard-sell-avastin-as-a-breast-cancer-med/#comment-74416 TOdd Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:43:17 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/12/a-hard-sell-avastin-as-a-breast-cancer-med/#comment-74416 Can I ask you, Why do we care? It is your eye, your mind is made up against the medical advice of your doctor. Good luck. I mean, if I trusted my doc that little that I got medical advice from encyclopedia.com with a 2004 date I might try another doc..... But hey, your eye, your research. You have to live with the results not us. Can I ask you, Why do we care? It is your eye, your mind is made up against the medical advice of your doctor. Good luck.

I mean, if I trusted my doc that little that I got medical advice from encyclopedia.com with a 2004 date I might try another doc….. But hey, your eye, your research. You have to live with the results not us.

]]> By: Alan Wakefield http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/12/a-hard-sell-avastin-as-a-breast-cancer-med/#comment-74274 Alan Wakefield Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:35:11 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/12/a-hard-sell-avastin-as-a-breast-cancer-med/#comment-74274 I have an appointment tomorrow, January 2, 2008, for my seventh or 8th Avastin injection into my eye. The reason for the injections is to stop blood vessel leakage following lens replacement in July of 2006. I have been researching Avastin and what I have found is not encouraging. I have concluded that I WILL NOT receive any additional injections of Avastin into my eye. In 2004 there was a "paucity of data" from Genentech, the manufacturer of Avastin. Here is an excerpt from an article I read: "The data I have cited above comes not from peer-reviewed studies in medical journals, but from the websites of the FDA and Genentech, the manufacturer of the drug Avastin. No individual authors are listed, no publication citations given. If you try to find independent data on Avastin you will probably be disappointed, as I was." Source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-116179925.html The other information, in the referenced article and considering your article above, is equally discomfiting and for the time being, enough for me to say "No" to any further injections. I have an appointment tomorrow, January 2, 2008, for my seventh or 8th Avastin injection into my eye. The reason for the injections is to stop blood vessel leakage following lens replacement in July of 2006.
I have been researching Avastin and what I have found is not encouraging. I have concluded that I WILL NOT receive any additional injections of Avastin into my eye.
In 2004 there was a “paucity of data” from Genentech, the manufacturer of Avastin. Here is an excerpt from an article I read: “The data I have cited above comes not from peer-reviewed studies in medical journals, but from the websites of the FDA and Genentech, the manufacturer of the drug Avastin. No individual authors are listed, no publication citations given. If you try to find independent data on Avastin you will probably be disappointed, as I was.” Source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-116179925.html
The other information, in the referenced article and considering your article above, is equally discomfiting and for the time being, enough for me to say “No” to any further injections.

]]> By: sid http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/12/a-hard-sell-avastin-as-a-breast-cancer-med/#comment-29974 sid Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:53:18 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/12/a-hard-sell-avastin-as-a-breast-cancer-med/#comment-29974 Huh, I thought Viagra was the hard sell. Was I wrong? Huh, I thought Viagra was the hard sell. Was I wrong?

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