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Avastin Improves Prognosis for Patients with Radiation Retinopathy

According to a two-year study published in the June 2007 edition of , many patients facing the prospect of due to may get to keep their sight longer by using a localized treatment of the well known cancer drug . , Director of Ocular Tumor Services at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and lead author of the study stated, “This is a major breakthrough for cancer patients who are treated with radiation therapy and commonly develop radiation retinopathy.” Until this discovery, eye cancer patients who experienced macular radiation retinopathy as a result of receiving radiation therapy had no effective course of treatment available to them. In an earlier study published in , Dr Finger showed Avastin had similiar results in patients with .

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