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August 4th, 2009

Bevacizumab Restores Hearing in NF2 Patients

Bevacizumab is a cancer treatment drug. It’s meant to shrink the blood vessels going to a tumor to stop it from growing.

It was not previously tried on benign tumors because blood flow does not appear to play as big of a role in these types of growth versus the malignant ones.

Researchers tested the drug on ten people with auditory schwannomas from NF2. The tumors in nine of the patients reduced in size. Some even experienced hearing recovery.

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2 Responses to “Bevacizumab Restores Hearing in NF2 Patients”

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