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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
FDA rejects Avastin for use against Metastatic Breast Cancer
My Mom was on this treatment as a last resort. It made things so so much worse. I can only hope and pray that more work is done with this treatment so that it is more effective and has less nasty side affects.
ETA: edited because apparently tonight I don't know the difference between effect and affect.
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Re: FDA rejects Avastin for use against Metastatic Breast Cancer
Seriously. As a biology major I was super excited when they said they were using this on my Mom. Its biding agent is albumin which is large component of human blood. Meaning less toxic bonding agents are used and less toxins are going into the body. Its a lot more impactful of a drug in a smaller package. The infusion only takes 20 minutes. Which means you don't have to spend a huge portion of your day getting a treatment like with paxlitale and some of the other drugs.
The drug itself is suppose to decrease the growth of new blood vessels in bones in order to "suffocate" the cancer cells into dying off. The idea works really, but when you actually use it its awful. It causes CHF and several other conditions. Its suppose to increase bone strength, but in my Mom's case it really didn't help. My mom was only able to receive the Avastin infusions 3 times because of her counts but they did so much damage. I can only imagine the affects if she had had more of them.