Clinical trial shows benefit to adding avastin to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients

Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

Amid the controversy surrounding the Food and Drug Administration's ruling that Avastin should no longer be used to treat metastatic breast cancer, a new multinational Phase III clinical trial shows that Avastin significantly increased tumor response rates in breast cancer patients when given before surgery.

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