hi everyone

Hi everyone. Very please and thankfull for your posts and this excellent webpage. I am currently undegroing a trial ac, taxol avastin, Reading thisnews is very stressfull. Is it because the cost of the drug?, The" overall survival rate" "quality of life" or the scarry rebound effects when the drug for any reason is stopped. And what would be the difference for beginning stages and later stages. Any comments greatly appreciated. I fell so lost. Thank you and God bless you all.

Thank you Lee,

For a moment a was having horrendous thoughts . Thank you. I trust my docto r too. Got too.

Thank you I feel better.

Have you seen this link that Steve posted on another thread about Avistan?

www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/health/policy/21avastin.html?_r=1

Hi Poli,

I was also in an Avastin clinical trial for early breast cancer. I've read the recent news and they all mention that the FDA's decision was based on the results of studies in advanced BC. As Lee points out, the studies that we have been enrolled in are looking at the response of BC to Avastin in the adjuvant setting which as is the case with other cancer drugs, may be different from advanced cancer. The truth is that there are no enough results from these studies yet to know if Avastin does help or not as they gave it to us. Many doctors are hopeful that it does help. In fact some results recently published on studies on Avastin and ovarian cancer in the adjuvant setting showed positive results. You are in any even receiving the standard treatment available which is the AC and T which doctors know works in most cases. This is what helps me feel better; knowing that even if the Avastin ends up not making much difference I at least received a very good treatment.

Best,

Natalia