This episode offers a detailed look into the FDA’s recent PCAC meeting and what the future of peptide compounding could lead to for pharmacy professionals.
|Articles|March 22, 2004
New biologic offers hope as first-line colorectal cancer agent
The FDA recently approved bevacizumab (Avastin, Genentech) for use in combination with intravenous 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of metastatic CRC. Bevacizumab is the first angiogenesis inhibitor to be approved for use in the U.S. Genentech began to ship bevacizumab to wholesalers within 3 days of its approval.
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