Avastin belongs to the group of chemo-agents called the “Smart Bomb” or Targeted Drug. It is used in combination with the conventional chemo-drug for metastatic colorectal, non-small cell lung cancer, metastatic kidney cancer and glioblastoma (brain cancer).
The drug is not only expensive but also comes with a variety of scary side effects. Patients receiving Avastin may suffer from the following:
- Serious, and sometimes fatal, side effect called gastrointestinal (GI) perforation. Perforation is the development of a hole in the stomach, small intestine, or large intestine.
- Serious and sometimes fatal bleeding, such as coughing up blood, bleeding in the stomach, vomiting blood, bleeding in the brain, nosebleeds, and vaginal bleeding.
- Nervous system and vision disturbances. Symptoms may include high blood pressure, headache, seizure, sluggishness, confusion, and blindness.
- Stroke or heart problems, which can be fatal. Heart problems include blood clots, mini-stroke, heart attack and chest pain.
- Abdominal pain
- Nausea,
- Vomiting
- Constipation
- Fever
- Slow or incomplete wound healing
- Too much protein in the urine, which may lead to serious kidney problems
- High blood pressure.
Alimta is used in combination with the conventional chemo-drug for the treatment of non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer and malignant pleural mesothelioma. Alimta is not indicated for squamous cell lung cancer.
Patients may be allergic to Alimta and suffer from hives, difficulty breathing; swelling of face, lips, tongue, throat, pale skin, easy bruising or bleeding and unusual weakness.
The side effects of Alimta include:
- Fever, chills, body aches, flu symptoms
- White patches or sores inside mouth or on lips
- Urinating less than usual, or not at all
- Chest pain, trouble breathing
- Swelling, rapid weight gain
- Skin rash
- Numbness or tingling
- Depressed mood
- Sore throat
- Tired feeling
- Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, indigestion, loss of appetite
- Muscle pain.
The most important question which patients want to know:
Can Avastin cure cancer? Try type this question on Google search and see what answer you get? You get nothing. No one is talking about cure at all. They only talk about prolonging life! And that too is amazingly ridiculous.
Q: Does Avastin cure colon cancer?
A: No.
Avastin (Bevacizumab): Good or Bad Cancer Treatment? http://yalepress.typepad.com/fightingcancer/2011/07/avastin-bevacizumab-good-or-bad-cancer-treatment.html
Dr. Richard Frank, M.D. wrote: “The cost of cancer medicines is breaking the banks of Medicare and patients (private insurers continually raise their rates to cover costs) as well as forcing the closing of many oncology practices across the country. Access to basic cancer care and medicines is being jeopardized because of the exorbitant costs of the new biologic medicines. Unless these medicines can show at least a meager, repeatable improvement in survival for patients battling cancer, then they should not be approved and patients should not be given them in false hope.”
Q: Can Alimta cure lung cancer? This is the answer I got.
A: Alimta does not cure mesothelioma or lung cancer.
Having understood the risks and the potential benefit (but what benefit are we talking about?) let us watch this video on what Alimta + Avastin did to a patient with lung cancer that had spread to his liver.
Note: We received a message on 18 September 2011 that this patient died.
When a lawyer makes a mistake, he loses his case in court; When an engineer makes a mistake, the building collapses; But when a doctor makes a mistake, it gets buried in his patient’s grave ~ A Cancer Patient
Comments
In his website, http://www.utopiaawaits.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=2
Dr. Carlos Garcia, M.D. wrote, “Many patients and support individuals … get incensed when I state that chemotherapy has a FAILURE RATE of ninety-seven percent (97%), or a cure rate of a mere three percent (3%). They are usually shocked and then appalled by this statement. Their body posture changes, their mood becomes more confrontational, in short this statement touches the very core of their belief structure. That is if I am correct, as I will attempt to corroborate with the attachments herein, then why were they not told this prior to being told that chemotherapy, along with surgery and radiation are the ONLY ways of treating cancer and furthermore that alternative practitioners are mere quacks.
The FACTS are that after years of trying, and FAILURE and trillions of dollars in research with no improvement in success why is chemotherapy still being used? Are the oncologists just mindless heartless doctors in it for the buck? How do they justify just recommending chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, while ignoring dietary changers, and emotional issues? How do they justify the continued endorsement that was first known to be ineffective in 1985 and remains ineffective with a ninety-seven percent (97%) failure rate today?
Let’s be honest, spontaneous remission, has a higher success rate than chemotherapy. So potentially one could reach the logical and perhaps factual conclusion that doing nothing when diagnosed with the symptom of cancer is a better medical choice than opting for chemotherapy, with definitely a higher quality of life than that presented by chemotherapy.”
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