Cancer treatment controls macular edema related to diabetes and to cataract surgery
Friday, July 31, 2009 - 11:56
in Health & Medicine
SAN FRANCISCO, CA---This month's Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, reports on use of bevacizumab (Avastin), to benefit diabetic patients with macular edema as well as people who develop cystoid macular edema after cataract surgery. Bevacizumab is also used to treat some cancers.