Metastatic liver cancer

Oct 30 2008

Avastin cancer drug

Published by Liver Cancer at 6:15 pm under CANCER STORIES, Metastatic Liver Cancer, Treatment, avastin

avastin cancer drug

Is Avastin as effective as people are told this cancer drug will be?

Please leave a comment if you or your loved one has used the Avastin cancer drug.

We would love to hear answers on the following Avastin questions

how effective is Avastin?
for which cancer did you use the Avastin cancer drug?
was Avastin given by itself or mixed with other chemotherapy?
in case of Taxol and Avastin chemotherapy: what-how is the survival after Taxol and Avastin?
in case of Avastin and Zeloda - Xeloda chemotherapy: what - how - how long is the survival after Avastin and Zeloda - Xeloda?
what were the Avastin side effects?
what was the Avastin cost and how did your health insurance intervene?
are you an Avastin cancer survivor?

The above Avastin questions are related to Amanda’s question to Kistan2, commented at Avastin for metastatic liver cancer:

Kistan2,

I am really interested in speaking to people who have found Avastin did not help with their treatment.

I am looking at whether it is as effective as people are told it will be.

Amanda

Please leave a comment about your experiences with the Avastin cancer drug.

6 Responses to “Avastin cancer drug”

# Jonon 07 Nov 2008 at 12:53 am

My 7 year old son has been on avastin, dosataxol(?) and gemsideabine for about a year now and the doctors and the MRI scans seem to show we are headed in the right direction. He has angiosarcoma in the liver. Treatment is every 2 weeks and side effects are mild.
# Ray Wattson 17 Nov 2008 at 3:48 am

Hi,

I had a years course of Avastin for Secondary Liver Cancer and it stopped any new tumours from growing for over a year, then once I stopped taking it they came back.

The side affects were non-existant so i was very pleased about that i can tell you!

So yes I would say it definately works (for me anyway!)

I’m now trying to get my insurance company to pay for another years supply but having no luck at the moment.

It is through my company health insurance so they are speaking to them at the moment on my behalf.

Cheers

Ray
# Metastatic liver cancer » Avastin chemotherapy drugon 18 Nov 2008 at 3:54 pm

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# Liver Canceron 18 Nov 2008 at 3:57 pm

@Jon

Thanks for sharing and all our hugs and prayers for you, your son and your family.

We featured your story and ask others to join in at Avastin chemotherapy drug
# Liver Canceron 29 Nov 2008 at 11:37 am

@Ray,

Thanks for sharing, we featured your story at How Ray became our third metastatic liver cancer survivor

and are quite surprised how calm you keep when health insurances are determining about your Avastin chemotherapy.

@ Everybody

Read more about our other 2 metastatic liver cancer survivors Trish and Dan:
- Dan Metastatic liver cancer survivor
- Trish Metastatic Liver Cancer Survivor
# Metastatic liver cancer » How Ray became our third metastatic liver cancer survivoron 01 Dec 2008 at 12:03 am

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