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Teen Lobbies for FDA Avastin Approval
The San Francisco Business Times reports: Josh Turnage is your typical teenager, trying to discover what he wants to do in college and with his life. But a 7-minute, 41-second YouTube video he produced about his mother’s fight with breast cancer may thrust him into a debate between drug makers and the agency that regulates them.
Turnage’s poignant video — shot in a few hours with a camera borrowed from the 19-year-old’s Madison, Miss., church and posted early Sunday morning — begs the Food and Drug Administration not to pull approval of Avastin, a tumor-choking drug from South San Francisco’s Genentech Inc. for the treatment of advanced breast cancer.
The video has rung up more than 1,000 views since it was posted.
An FDA panel of experts last month recommended that the agency revoke its approval of the world’s best-selling cancer drug, with $5.8 billion in sales last year, for use by women with breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. (Read the transcript of the advisory panel's meeting here.)
To read more of Turnage's plea, and see the video, go to the San Francisco Business Times.
Ron Leuty is a reporter for the San Francisco Business Times.
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