NEWS article: "Cancer Drug Shrinks Tumors that Steal Hearing" re Avastin

[4cm in Pacific Northwest]

“Cancer Drug Shrinks Benign Tumors that Steal Hearing” Article in the news

New drug treatment for acoustic neuroma

There was a post about this ,by Lilian, that was removed this morning??? 

The article link posted I managed to print… before the post was removed
 (BTW -Why was this removed???  )

I am not sure what happened to it but I am making sure it is out there again for people to read.

Headline
“Cancer Drug Shrinks Benign Tumors that Steal Hearing”

It is about the development of the drug Avastin (This was talked about at the Chicago symposium  )

I found other links that have the article after a Google search

http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Cancer-Drug-Shrinks-Benign-Tumors-That-Steal-Hearing--56969-1/

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/ears-nose-throat/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100244938

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090708181156.htm

US government article
http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.aspx?docID=630022

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/07/08/drug-shows-promise-in-nervous-system-tumor.html

DHM

[ppearl214]

Hey my Dazy Hazy Mazy!

FYI...

http://anausa.org/forum/index.php?topic=10055.0


Did this post a short while back.... being done here in Boston.

thanks for sharing this info with everyone.  Great to have folks, such as yourself, looking out for info to share with others that they may find of benefit!

good job!
xoxo
Pearly Whites

[4cm in Pacific Northwest]

Hey there- good morning Pearly Whites!!    

That article you posted back in July is great too! (How did I miss that one  )  I only just read it now...

... I heard about this med at the symposium. It did not sound as successful as the articles, from yesterday, make it out to be... maybe I was just not paying attention.

Anyway I am glad I caught Lilian's post before it disappeared...

Got my "Marian the Librarian" Hat on today (it is knitted with a lovely barn red color- and a daisy sticking out of it  )

Cheers with a latte,

MTL (aka DHM)

[4cm in Pacific Northwest]

Gee if only I had a time travel machine and I could go back to being a teenager... and this drug was around then...

Ok back to listening to my LP player (in mono ),  33's with 70's artwork on the jacket sleeves...

My teens has the I-Pod... that holds more tunes than my entire wall of music... held in her hand.

Look how far medicine and technology has come...    

"Keep moving forward" (my motto adopted from the movie Meet the Robinson's)
Here is my favorite track ... I play on my  I-pod (again in mono) ... from that film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsT2URr1Igc


Daisy Head Mazy  

[opp2]

Wonder who's going to be the first one to ask their doc about it?

[4cm in Pacific Northwest]

Oh Oh Oh  Pick me. Pick me... I will... I will... Oh Oh....   Pick me!

(Have I spent too much of my life in a classroom with keener kids- or what ...   )

DHM

[Kate B]

Wow!!!! I wonder if it works in patients other than NF2s?  I wonder what size the tumor was...This has real possibility.

[opp2]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/07/09/a_drug8217s_unintended_use_restores_the_gift_of_hearing/?page=full

here is another link to the original article in July. Looks like for those of us searching, this drug might be too far away from approval to be used. Hard to say. I think one would have to be referred to a neuro-oncologist to discuss using it as well.