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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/651B9682-05DA-4A7E-BE88-3DAE82733406/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/maculardegeneration/">maculardegeneration</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Information on macular degeneration and AMD... <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.avastin-macular-degeneration.com/" title="http://www.avastin-macular-degeneration.com/">www.avastin-macular-degeneration.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT color="#0000ff" size="6"> Avastin for Macular Degeneration - (</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="4">Currently this medicine is used in combination with standard chemotherapy drugs in patients with metastasis colorectal cancer, although studies are underway to determine its effectiveness for patients with non-metastatic colorectal cancer and metastatic or un-resectable locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the pancreas.<BR /> </FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="5"><B><A name="Macular_Degeneration_-_AMD_-_ARMD_-_"> Macular Degeneration - AMD - ARMD</A></B></FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="4">Macular degeneration, sometimes called just AMD or ARMD (age-related macular degeneration) is the leading cause of vision loss and blindness in American men and women above the age of 65. Since the Baby Boomers are getting older and older and their generation represent an increasingly larger percentage of the general population, vision loss is a growing problem.</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/maculardegeneration/512/D6084FD7-673E-4B36-9B1D-0BB21ABE3F3E.jpg" alt="How Macular Degeneration affects sight" /><br /></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/amd/" rel="tag">amd</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/macular+degeneration/" rel="tag">macular degeneration</a></div>http://www.avastin-macular-degeneration.com/Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:15:37 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/27AFC9FD-730F-4E92-93D5-D44D96A25405/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/maculardegeneration/">maculardegeneration</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Information on macular degeneration and AMD... the new medicine that is available for treatment... <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.avastin-macular-degeneration.com/" title="http://www.avastin-macular-degeneration.com/">www.avastin-macular-degeneration.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT color="#0000ff" size="6"> Avastin for Macular Degeneration - (</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT color="#0000ff" size="4">also called AMD or MD)</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P align="justify"> <IMG height="438" border="0" align="right" width="228" longdesc="How Macular Degeneration affects sight" alt="How Macular Degeneration affects sight" src="http://www.avastin-macular-degeneration.com/macular-degeneration-amd.jpg" /><FONT size="4">Bevacizumab  (trade name <FONT color="#0000ff">Avastin </FONT></FONT><FONT color="#0000ff"><I>pronounced "ah-va'-stin"</I></FONT><FONT size="4">) is a medicine used for the treatment of cancer that targets the angiogenesis pathway. </FONT></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/maculardegeneration/512/96CCCBCA-2180-40F3-8EBE-096F4B7F356B.jpg" alt="How Macular Degeneration affects sight" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><FONT size="4"><FONT color="#0000ff"> <FONT size="5"><B><A name="Macular_Degeneration_-_AMD_-_ARMD_-_"> Macular Degeneration - AMD - ARMD</A></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="4">Macular degeneration, sometimes called just AMD or ARMD (age-related macular degeneration) is the leading cause of vision loss and blindness in American men and women above the age of 65. Since the Baby Boomers are getting older and older and their generation represent an increasingly larger percentage of the general population, vision loss is a growing problem.</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="4">In October of 2006, the National Eye Institute (NEI) announced that it would fund a comparative study trial of ranibizumab (Lucentis) and bevacizumab (Avastin) to assess the effectiveness of the medicines in treating AMD.</FONT></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/macular+degeneration/" rel="tag">macular degeneration</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/amd/" rel="tag">amd</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/md/" rel="tag">md</a></div>http://www.avastin-macular-degeneration.com/Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:14:26 GMT