Avastin (chemical name: bevacizumab)

Page last modified on: June 4, 2008
End of Year 2008
(a-VASS-tin)

A drug that works by stopping or slowing the formation of new blood vessels that cancer cells need in order to grow. It is now being tested to see if works against cancer.

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