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How do you manage palliative pelvic radiotherapy in a patient receiving Avastin?

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Radiation Oncology · VA New Jersey Healthcare System - East Orange campus.

Great question. Using Avastin with concurrent pelvic radiotherapy?

The matter of serious adverse events led to an FDA ruling against its use concurrently with radiotherapy in 2007. The issues of thromboembolic events, bleeding, and fistula formation are a real thing with this drug and radiotherapy ...

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