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Good piece of news today: the IV chemotherapy that CBRD (Clifford the Big Red Dog, of course) has been taking for the last five months was recommended, unanimously, by a U.S. Panel for accelerated approval to market for patients with Glioblastoma.

Now, you may be asking, how is he taking it before it has been approved? Due to the elevated stage of his cancer, his quarterback at UCLA was able to bypass the clinical trials (that led to the U.S. Panel's findings) and just start using it from the get go - think of it as a fortunate head start.

The article quotes an Avastin patient who was diagnosed over three years ago. Based on the current data, three years is a long time. But these are only the short-term findings. Lets hope this same patient is being quoted when the long-term findings are being reported in 2014.