Avastin for Macular
Degeneration - (
Currently this medicine is used in combination
with standard chemotherapy drugs in patients with metastasis colorectal cancer,
although studies are underway to determine its effectiveness for patients with
non-metastatic colorectal cancer and metastatic or un-resectable locally
advanced adenocarcinoma of the pancreas.
Macular degeneration, sometimes called just AMD or ARMD (age-related macular
degeneration) is the leading cause of vision loss and blindness in American men
and women above the age of 65. Since the Baby Boomers are getting older and
older and their generation represent an increasingly larger percentage of the
general population, vision loss is a growing problem.
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