Counterfeit Avastin

Tethys41
Tethys41 Member Posts: 1,382 Member
in Ovarian Cancer #1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/counterfeit-avastin-roche-warning-cancer-drug_n_1277464.html

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  • carolenk
    carolenk Member Posts: 907 Member
    #2
    This is heartbreaking!

    This is heartbreaking!
  • AnneBehymer
    AnneBehymer Member Posts: 738 Member
    #3
    carolenk said:

    This is heartbreaking!

    This is heartbreaking!

    it really is I am on avastin
    it really is I am on avastin only as a maintance chemo and in the pass two months my numbers have gone from 6 to 69 and it really makes me wonder,

    Anne
  • AnotherChance
    AnotherChance Member Posts: 8
    #4
    Oh my gosh! My mom was on
    Oh my gosh! My mom was on avastin....three treatments of it and it didn't work for her. I'm wondering if the ones administered for her were fake? That was back in Nov or Dec. Now she has passed. Will always miss and love her.
  • poopergirl14052
    poopergirl14052 Member Posts: 1,183 Member
    #5
    AnotherChance said:

    Oh my gosh! My mom was on
    Oh my gosh! My mom was on avastin....three treatments of it and it didn't work for her. I'm wondering if the ones administered for her were fake? That was back in Nov or Dec. Now she has passed. Will always miss and love her.

    disgusting
    I have heard of a lot of awful crimes but this is one of the worse. We are all already apprehensive as it is and now we have to worry if our chemo is legit, Hope they catch the rotten person,,hand him us cancer patients....val
  • clamryn
    clamryn Member Posts: 508
    #6
    Makes me so mad
    I had been on Avastin also. Didn't work and my tumors grew. I am another one wondering if I got the bad stuff. If they ever find out who was responsible, my punishment for them would be to have cancer injected into them. (I get really upset over stuff like this. Please forgive me. It is my anger coming out. I really don't want anyone having cancer.)

    Linda
  • Tethys41
    Tethys41 Member Posts: 1,382 Member
    #7
    Well..
    I hope no one here received the fake stuff. Here is a link that lists the bulk of the practices that received the bad stuff:

    http://tinyurl.com/83z5t8l

    Most are located in So. California and Texas.
  • mopar
    mopar Member Posts: 1,972 Member
    #8
    THIS IS DESPICABLE!
    These horrible people who are playing with people's lives. . . I just don't know what to say. May God forgive them.

    For those of you who have been on Avastin, please get all the information you can regarding the lot numbers used for your treatment, etc. I know it is a long, exhausting process, but if there's even a slight chance you received this 'counterfeit' batch, you deserve to know. Just to think there are those out there who were told, 'Avastin just didn't work for you', or worse situations, makes me ill.

    Sending hugs and prayers to all of you. I'm going to pass this article along to as many as I know. My sister-in-law's friend has been on Avastin for I believe breast cancer.

    Monika
  • AnneBehymer
    AnneBehymer Member Posts: 738 Member
    #9
    AnotherChance said:

    Oh my gosh! My mom was on
    Oh my gosh! My mom was on avastin....three treatments of it and it didn't work for her. I'm wondering if the ones administered for her were fake? That was back in Nov or Dec. Now she has passed. Will always miss and love her.

    so sorry
    I am so sorry you lost your mom and I think you will always miss her and I know you will never stop loving her. I do hope her life was not cut short due to fake chemo medication but I would check into it.

    Anne
  • AnneBehymer
    AnneBehymer Member Posts: 738 Member
    #10
    clamryn said:

    Makes me so mad
    I had been on Avastin also. Didn't work and my tumors grew. I am another one wondering if I got the bad stuff. If they ever find out who was responsible, my punishment for them would be to have cancer injected into them. (I get really upset over stuff like this. Please forgive me. It is my anger coming out. I really don't want anyone having cancer.)

    Linda

    like
    I am pushing the like button I know you don't want anyone to have cancer but you are right to be angery you and I are walking in the same shoes right now. Wondering if the cancer is coming back because I am on the fake stuff. My prayers are with you.

    Anne
  • LoveButterflies
    LoveButterflies Member Posts: 74
    #11
    This is scary
    This is scary for me because I am currently on a clinical trial for Avastin. I've completed my 6 cycles with carbo/taxol/avastin and now doing maintenance with Avastin every 3 weeks until October 2012. My next treatment is on Tuesday, I will definitely be asking some questions.
  • carolenk
    carolenk Member Posts: 907 Member
    #12
    LoveButterflies said:

    This is scary
    This is scary for me because I am currently on a clinical trial for Avastin. I've completed my 6 cycles with carbo/taxol/avastin and now doing maintenance with Avastin every 3 weeks until October 2012. My next treatment is on Tuesday, I will definitely be asking some questions.

    The real stuff
    Carmen

    I would guess that you are on the real Avastin or you wouldn't be having all those side effects.

    Welcome to the discussion board & congratulations on your remission.
  • AnneBehymer
    AnneBehymer Member Posts: 738 Member
    #13
    LoveButterflies said:

    This is scary
    This is scary for me because I am currently on a clinical trial for Avastin. I've completed my 6 cycles with carbo/taxol/avastin and now doing maintenance with Avastin every 3 weeks until October 2012. My next treatment is on Tuesday, I will definitely be asking some questions.

    almost the same schedule I
    almost the same schedule I will end my maintenance of Avastin in september of this year I really unterstand you worries.

    Anne

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