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Avastin is the brand name of the drug bevacizumab, which is used to treat certain cancers of the colon, rectum, lung, brain, ovary, cervix, and kidney.vastin is also used with chemotherapy to treat breast cancer that has not been previously treated with chemotherapy and that has spread to other parts of the body. Avastin is also used alone to treat a progressive glioblastoma, a certain type of brain tumor, which has been previously treated.
A dose of Avastin -- used off-label for this purpose, as the drug is currently approved only for cancer indications -- costs about $50 whereas a dose of Ludentis, which is approved for AMD, costs about $2,000.atients receiving monthly doses of Avastin gained 8.0 letters of visual acuity after one year, compared with an 8.5-letter gain for those receiving Lucentis, according to the study, published online ahead of schedule in the New England Journal of Medicine.