Does Avastin Improve AMD?
June 18, 2010
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A recent randomized clinical trial showed that age-related macular degeneration (AMD) improved significantly during a year of off-label therapy with bevacizumab (Avastin).
In particular, ten times as many patients had at least a 15-letter improvement in visual acuity at one year compared with patients treated with standard therapy, while more than 90% of Avastin-treated patients had less than a 15-letter decline in visual acuity compared with 67% of the control group.
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