As they pass through your urinary tract, kidney stones can obstruct urine from exiting your body and be quite painful. If they are quite large, they may cause damage to the kidneys or cause you to have recurrent urinary tract infections. Kidney stones are considered harmless, although you should contact your doctor if you are having serious pain.
Bevacizumab (Avastin) is an anti-angiogenic drug given along with chemotherapy for lung cancer. The risk of serious bleeding for patients taking bevacizumab is about 2%. However, it is more common for patients with squamous cell carcinoma, so bevacizumab is not recommended for patients with this type of NSCLC.
If you happened to read last weekâs Weekly Breather, you may have picked up on a few pieces of interesting news. An important one, that also hit major media outlets, was that Opdivo (nivolumab) was approved by the FDA last Wednesday for the treatment of lung cancer â more on that in a minute. Also mentioned in the Breather last week was my hiring as Director of Science and Research for Lung Cancer Alliance.