Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 28 2011. Researchers are reporting results from the first year of a two-year clinical trial that Avastin, a drug approved to treat some cancers and that is commonly used off-label to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD), is as effective as the Food and Drug Administration-approved drug Lucentis for the treatment of AMD.
The report, from the Comparison of AMD Treatments Trials (CATT), was published online in the New England Journal of Medicine on…
