If I read this correctly, the FDA is pulling its approval to allow Avastin to be used for breast cancer, because of the possible side effects? Do these possible side effects only occur in breast cancer patients? The other cancer patients using the drug don't have to worry about these possible side effects? What is wrong with this picture? Seriously, given all the deadly possible side effects of every other drug the FDA has approved, I fail to understand their stance on this issue.
Or perhaps it's just because it affects mostly women? (Did I say that out loud?)
Why does a drug have to prolong life in order to be considered effective? Why can't it just make a person's life better while it can? Why does living longer have to take precedence over living easier/more comfortable? What good is living an extra year or 10 if those years are spent in pain or ill from other treatments? I personally would prefer quality of life over quantity of life any day. I'd take 1 good year over 10 bad years. But that's just me.
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If I read this correctly, the FDA is pulling its approval to allow Avastin to be used for breast cancer, because of the possible side effects? Do these possible side effects only occur in breast cancer patients? The other cancer patients using the drug don't have to worry about these possible side effects? What is wrong with this picture? Seriously, given all the deadly possible side effects of every other drug the FDA has approved, I fail to understand their stance on this issue.
Or perhaps it's just because it affects mostly women? (Did I say that out loud?)
Why does a drug have to prolong life in order to be considered effective? Why can't it just make a person's life better while it can? Why does living longer have to take precedence over living easier/more comfortable? What good is living an extra year or 10 if those years are spent in pain or ill from other treatments? I personally would prefer quality of life over quantity of life any day. I'd take 1 good year over 10 bad years. But that's just me.
July 5, 2011 - 4:18pmThis Comment
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