Avastin will retain approval as a treatment for other cancers, so doctors can use it off-label for breast cancer.
Avastin would retain approval for other cancers so doctors could still use it off label for breast cancer.
Even if approval as a breast cancer treatment is ultimately rescinded, Avastin will retain approval to treat lung, colon, kidney and brain cancers.
If Genentech could figure out how to predict this — such as by a genetic test — it would clear the way for the drug to retain approval for a subset of patients.
In a final appeal, Genentech, which is based in South San Francisco, Calif., and owned by Roche, asked the F.D.A. in August to retain approval, at least for women with the most aggressive forms of breast cancer and the fewest treatment options, while the company conducts another clinical trial in an effort to prove the drug works.
Even if it loses the approval for breast cancer, Avastin will retain approvals as a treatment for colon, lung and other cancers.
The Pentagon allowed Wayne lavish use of props and military bases for filming; it also retained script approval, and insisted on extensive and detailed changes to plot and dialogue.
Nike are likely to have retained final approval over any other sponsorship deal McIlroy signs.
The University Council, composed of the president, the registrar and the college deans, retained final approval authority.
The voting machines, some of which are 50 years old, are the only approved method now, and would retain state approval.
