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Cancer patients and the COVID-19 vaccines Clinicians, cancer patients and coronavirus researchers weigh in on vaccination safety, timing, allergy concerns and more January 14, 2021 • By Diane Mapes / Fred Hutch News Service Metastatic breast cancer patient and family doctor Dr. Carla Kakuta of Winters, California, receives her first COVID-19 shot, before heading off to cancer treatment. "I went straight from vaccination to the infusion center because I’m awesome like that," she wrote on Twitter. “I've been seeing patients in person through t...

found it caused serious side effects, including death, and did not help women live longer or feel better. dr. elise a port is a breast cancer specialist. >> while the idea of not treating someone with cancer is unappealing to many of us, we certainly don't want to give them something that they have no reasonable hope of benefiting and yet may incur very significant side effects. >> reporter: oncologist dr. gary lyman was on an advisory panel that recommended withdrawing the drug. but he believes a small group of women do benefit from avastin the. >> i would not hesitate to use it if ...

with scott pelley. >> pelley: we're beginning tonight with news about one of the top selling cancer drugs, avastin. it's used to treat a variety of cancers but the f.d.a. said uld noit should no longer be used to treat breast cancer because there's no evidence it helps patients and it may actually hurt them. esastin is big business, with sales of $3 billion a year, and it's estimated that as many as a800 americans are taking it for breast cancer. 5,80 we asked dr. jon lapook what the f.d.a. announcement means for them. >> avastin is to me part of my safety net. >> reporter: breast ca...

avastin is big business, with sales of $3 billion a year, and it's estimated that as many as 5,800 americans are taking it for breast cancer. we asked dr. jon lapook what the f.d.a. announcement means for them. >> avastin is to me part of my safety net. >> reporter: breast cancer patient bonnie fertel feels crushed by today's f.d.a. decision. she believes avastin is keeping her alive. >> i feel like this is a life raft. i don't want to see it yanked away. >> reporter: fertel is afraid her insurance company will stop paying for the drug which costs $90,000 a year. >> it should be the ...

fighters penetrated the hotel's tight security. this morning officials say at least ten people were killed, along with the eight attackers. joel brown joins us from washington. joel, what is the latest? >> betty, good morning. hours before a conference was slated to get under way, when handing over security to the afghans, the taliban made its move on the conference hotel. the message? it's still a force to be reckoned with. flames poured out of the intercontinental hotel in kabul overnight following the taliban's braze an tack. late tuesday a team of suicide bombers and gunmen storm...