Roche’s cancer treatment Avastin (bevacizumab) has long been employed as an off-label option for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients. | Roche’s cancer treatment Avastin has long been employed as an off-label option for wet age-related macular degeneration patients. Now the FDA has endorsed a new formulation of the VEGF inhibitor for regulated use in the U.S. Bringing it to the market is Outlook Therapeutics, which labored through three FDA rejections to finally secure a nod. It will be known commercially as Lytenava.

Outlook Therapeutics (OTLK) announced that the Food and Drug Administration has approved Lytenava for the treatment of neovascular age-related m...

The FDA approved LYTENAVA by Outlook Therapeutics, marking the first ophthalmic bevacizumab for wet AMD in the lucrative US retina market.