Genentech, Inc.

Genentech pursues Avastin with chemotherapy in treating some breast cancers

Published in Oncology Business Week, July 2nd, 2006

Genentech, Inc. (DNA) announced that the company submitted a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Avastin (bevacizumab) in combination with taxane chemotherapy for patients who have not previously received chemotherapy for their locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer.

Genentech has requested Priority Review of the application, which means that if accepted, the FDA would make its decision on the application within six months of the agency's receipt of the submission, or in November 2006. Avastin is currently approved as a first-line treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer in combination with...

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