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Hearing restored in NF2 Patient w/drug treatment of Avastin
ppearl214:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/07/09/a_drug8217s_unintended_use_restores_the_gift_of_hearing/
The article is quite large for me to copy/paste here, so suggestion is to follow the link noted above.....
Amazing! Simply amazing! Done right here in Boston at Mass General Hosp/Mass Eye and Ear
Phyl
GRACE1:
Thanks for sharing this great article.
Grace
krbonner:
I was just about to post the same link. Amazing research - I really hope it yields results as good for more NF2 patients! I didn't care for the line in the article that radiation treatment "may cause cancer" but otherwise there's some really interesting information. I wonder what it will mean down the road for AN patients without NF2.
Thanks for posting it!
Katie
jerseygirl:
Thanks for posting it! This is an amazing article; I almost cried when I read about this young lady.
Eve
tony:
Its interesting in many respects
NF2 was always thought "inccurable"
avastin was originally an anti-cancer medication
- interesting it works for NF2 (which is not really a cancer)
The angiogesic(?) suppression (ie restriction of new blood vessels)
is exactly how the Bio30 is supposed to work
- there are separate posts on the Bio 30
and the proposal to move it to a formal test on the group
My first thought - not always so useful ful for normal AN`s
but in some cases - the large ones do gain extra blood vessel supply
and in this case avastin should help (or preventing itfrom happening)
Only, negative, avastin costs
roughly 30 times that of the Bio
still, we prgress
Best Regards
Tony
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