Monoclonal Antibodies for Cancer Treatment
Why It Is Used
Bevacizumab is used to treat cancer, including colorectal and lung cancers. It is also used for brain tumors and kidney cancer. Bevacizumab may be used to treat cancers that are continuing to grow despite other treatment (treatment-resistant), cancers that have spread to other organs (metastasized), or cancers that have come back (recurrent).
Cetuximab and panitumumab are used to treat cancer, such as metastatic colorectal cancer. Cetuximab may also be used to treat skin cancer.
|By:||Reference Healthwise Staff||Last Revised: September 5, 2012|
|Medical Review:||Reference E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
Reference Kenneth Bark, MD - Surgery, Colon and Rectal