Avastin clocks up approval for 10th distinct use in USA

14 June 2018

Roche (ROG: SIX) unit Genentech has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Avastin (bevacizumab) in combination with chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel), followed by Avastin as a single agent, for advanced ovarian cancer following initial surgical resection.

Avastin is now approved for 10 distinct uses across six different types of cancer in the USA and this latest one is the fourth gynecologic oncology indication in four years, including advanced cervical cancer and two different forms of ovarian cancer that recurred after platinum-based chemotherapy.

"This approval represents an important milestone as the first medicine, other than chemotherapy, for women with advanced ovarian cancer after initial surgery"

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