Comments on Archelle On Health: The Battle Over Avastin

Avastin will always remain on the market as it is ...

2011-12-31T07:12:50.811-06:00

Avastin will always remain on the market as it is FDA-approved for certain types of lung, colon, kidney and brain cancers.
Many women have been successfully treated with Avastin .

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Your final conclusion is logical and makes sense, ...

2011-07-06T04:27:52.197-05:00

Your final conclusion is logical and makes sense, assuming that Roche really wants to make Avastin more available to women who want it.
Since they are a for profit firm, however, their primary mission is to make money, not achieve a social goal.
My prediction: Roche will not significantly reduce the price for women with breast cancer. That would be tantamount to car companies, like Rolls Royce, reducing the price of their cars for people who insist that having such a car will make driving much safer for them.

Archelle, first - catchy title. Second your lucid ...

2011-07-01T12:10:05.221-05:00

Archelle, first - catchy title. Second your lucid explanation adds significantly to the issue and the media totally missed it. In response to the anonymous poster above, just because on average the whole cohort did not benefit there may be some individuals who did benefit as well as some individuals who had bad side effects. So many medical studies only share the average outcome - this is the basis for personalized medicine where we use genetics/genomics to identify who is likely to benefit from a drug and who is not. Great piece, Dr. Georgiou!

Maybe I'm dating myself, but exchange Rodney K...

2011-07-01T11:41:46.687-05:00

Maybe I'm dating myself, but exchange Rodney King for Casey Anthony - and Bone Marrow Transplants for Avastin (treatment of breast cancer) ... it feels like we're back in 1992. Tremendous emotion voiced then for a treatment that proved ineffective.

Archelle: How do you reconcile these two sentence...

2011-07-01T11:28:24.870-05:00

Archelle: How do you reconcile these two sentences?

Many women have been successfully treated with Avastin. AND But when Roche submitted the required follow-up studies in 2010, the data showed that there was no benefit from the drug for treating breast cancer.

Is Avastin an $80,000/year placebo? Or does the follow up studies measure success differently than patient do?