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Title: ObamaCare Death Panels Begin: FDA Votes to Block Avastin for Breast Cancer Treatment
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Big Government
URL Source: http://biggovernment.com/publius/20 ... n-for-breast-cancer-treatment/
Published: Dec 16, 2010
Author: Publius
Post Date: 2010-12-16 13:30:17 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: ObamaCare, Death Panel, we
Views: 6005
Comments: 2
From the Associated Press: Federal health authorities are recommending the blockbuster drug Avastin no longer be used to treat breast cancer, saying recent studies failed to show the drug’s original promise to help slow the disease. The Food and Drug Administration’s decision is supported by many cancer experts but is sure to draw resistance from cancer patients and some doctors who fiercely defend the drug and say it should remain available. The FDA approved Avastin for breast cancer in 2008 based on studies suggesting it halted the spread of breast cancer for more than five months. But follow-up studies showed that delay lasted no more than three months, and patients suffered dangerous side effects. Doctors will still be able to prescribe the drug “off-label,” though some insurers may not pay for it. That last bit gives you the real story. This was about cost-cutting, not medical efficacy as we’ve repeatedly shown. Ironically, at about the same time the FDA was making its decision, the EU ruled to continue recommending Avastin. So, for breast cancer patients, there is more choice in Europe than the US.
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#1. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
Well, it doesn't work but let's pay for it anyway, eh HQ? Hey, talking about Death Panels, how about those Jan Brewer Death Panels in Arizona? If you want to study how to kill people, go to Arizona.
"I've really enjoyed meeting this community. They are so full of joy," - Sarah Palin to the thousands of cholera victims in Haiti
Was that in a speech to all of them? You really are a fookin idiot, skidmark.
recent studies failed to show the drug’s original promise to help slow the disease.
#2. To: Skip Intro (#1)
"I've really enjoyed meeting this community. They are so full of joy," - Sarah Palin to the thousands of cholera victims in Haiti
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