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PMFlorida. Lady. Many of us have used this drug in the past few years. There is still not a lot of research showing if the drugs has a much value as they really thought. I've used it three different time with zero side effects. Like so many drugs you really will not know what it can do for you or if you will have adverse side effects until you try it.
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Feb. 2. 6 (Bloomberg) - - A study of Genentech Inc.'s Avastin cancer drug is attracting critics who say it may force doctors to use the drug for a year without knowing if six months would work at half the cost. The 2,7. 10- patient trial, whose results are expected in April, may show that 1. Avastin added to six months of chemotherapy can reduce the risk of colon cancer recurring. The test is part of a $1 billion campaign by the South San Francisco- based company to expand the uses of Avastin, already approved for advanced colon, lung and breast cancer The drug, among the most expensive cancer medicines at a yearly wholesale cost of $5. Revenue may rise by $2 billion annually should the drug gain use against newly diagnosed colon cancer, said Jason Zhang, an analyst for BMO Capital Markets in New York. A positive result may increase Genentech's value as the company fends off a hostile tender offer from Roche Holding AG.
I was furious" about the study design, said Leonard Saltz, a research oncologist at Memorial Sloan- Kettering in New York who consults for Genentech, in a telephone interview. Saltz said in an interview that testing a drug for six months has been "standard practice for such a study for the last dozen years.
It is a significant expense issue, and it is a convenience and psychology issue," said Saltz, noting that the drug should first have been tested for half a year before testing it for a year. I was very disappointed." ‘Fair Question' Saltz and Alan Venook, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, both said they don't believe the study was designed just with profit in mind. Saltz praised the trial's lead scientist, Carmen Allegra, the division chief of hematology and oncology at the University of Florida Shands Cancer Center in Gainesville. Still, Venook said, "It's a fair question to ask." "While I believe they want to help patients, they also have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to get the best returns they can within the context of legal and ethical practices," Saltz said.
If I worked for Genentech, it would be my job to develop studies that would help them sell as much drug as possible." The study, called C- 0. Genentech and Basel, Switzerland- based Roche Holding AG, now pressing a hostile tender offer. Genentech rose $1. New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Roche, which already owns 5. Genentech shares, said its $8.
Genentech's 6. 1 percent estimate. A Genentech board committee has said the company should be priced at $1. The Roche offer expires March 1. Swiss Army Knife A positive finding is also critical to Genentech's long- term push to aim Avastin at a wide variety of early- stage tumors, making the drug a virtual Swiss army knife drug for cancer. Avastin is Genentech's "single most important value- driver over the next year," said Mark Schoenebaum, a Deutsche Bank analyst in New York, in a telephone interview.
Cancer- fighting medicines generated $4. IMS Health Inc. Avastin's cost puts the medicine at the center of a controversy over the growing cost of treating cancer. Monthly Price The median monthly price of cancer treatment in the U.
S. surged six- fold to $5,9. Peter Bach, a researcher at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center in New York and former senior policy adviser at the federal Medicare program. Advances in treatment have not improved at the same pace as their costs, he wrote in a report in the Feb. New England Journal of Medicine.
With each advance in treatment, the magnitude of the increase in the cost of treatment exceeded the magnitude of improvement in efficacy," wrote Bach, who consults for Genentech and other companies. He urged lawmakers to consider strategies for containing costs of cancer drugs such as having Medicare compare effectiveness of the medicines it pays for. Cancer doctors buy Avastin and are allowed to charge the manufacturer's price for the drug plus 6 percent. For advanced colon cancer patients who meet certain financial criteria, Genentech capped Avastin's cost at $5. The company hasn't announced what it would charge for Avastin as an adjuvant, or early- cancer, treatment. Both Saltz and Venook say it's also unknown whether longer use of Avastin, which fights cancer by crimping blood- vessel growth, may produce delayed side effects 1.
Long- Term Effects "We do not know what the long- term effects of exposure to Avastin might be, because no human being has been alive for 1. Saltz said in an email. Genentech officials wouldn't respond to repeated requests for interviews about the trial. Allegra, the study leader, said the trial's design sought to provide enough time on Avastin to detect whether the approach worked against early disease.
We wanted to optimize the chance that if there is a positive effect, we would see it," Allegra said in an interview. We would all like to see less expensive medication.
First we have to figure out if it works." The National Cancer Institute, the Food and Drug Administration, Genentech and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project all participated in designing the study. Allegra said. 1. 49,0. Diagnosed About 1. American Cancer Society. Allegra said that about 4.
Avastin is one of the new- generation of targeted treatments that fight cancer by interfering with basic biological pathways involved in cancer. Approved in 2. 00. Avastin was the first drug of its kind designed to block the growth of blood vessels that fuel tumor growth, a process called angiogenesis.
There is no guarantee Avastin, proven to be a powerful aid for advanced patients, will work in early stages of the disease, Allegra said. As far as safety is concerned, Avastin caused hypertension and musculoskeletal pain in some study participants, but didn't cause bleeding, another known side effect of the drug. Another serious complication associated with Avastin, perforation of the intestine in patients, didn't appear in CO- 8 volunteers, Allegra said.
Advocacy Group Nancy Roach, board chair of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition, an Alexandria, Virginia- based advocacy group that receives unrestricted funding from companies, including Genentech, is also critical of the colon cancer study's design. This is a publicly supported trial, and it skipped the fundamental question of how much Avastin is enough," Roach said in a telephone interview. Genentech declined to break out the public and private outlays for this study.
The National Cancer Institute supports a network of clinical trial cooperative groups, including the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, which is conducting the Avastin C- 0. If Avastin makes a difference in patient outcomes, "We'll pay for it," said UCSF's Venook. If benefits are marginal, we'll have to take a microscope to how much we pay for this.".
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