Avastin and FDA/CMS Coordination: Genentech's Safe Strategy to Save Medicare Coverage

FDA’s June Avastin hearing featured a number of points of clear disconnect between the sponsor, the agency, and other stakeholders debating the role of the therapy for metastatic breast cancer. Perhaps the biggest: the most important issue may depend on a completely different agency, CMS.

Michael McCaughan

July 29, 2011

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