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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, we're beginning tonight with what is, for women with breast cancer, a matter of life and death. the f.d.a. opened a hearing today to decide whether to end its approval of the drug avastin as a treatment for advanced breast cancer. the drug costs nearly $100,000 a year and there's serious doubt about how well it works. we asked dr. jon lapook to introduce us to the people whose lives are in the balance. >> reporter: liz cleary and her husband bob were newlyweds nine years ago when th...

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 brazen attack. late tuesday a team of suicide bombers and gunmen stormed the heavily guarded building, firing at civilians and setting off a tense four-hour standoff with securit...

so the five spots that were still in my lungs were gone. >> reporter: but according to the f.d.a., liz cleary is the exception, not the rule. the f.d.a. had granted preliminary approval to use avastin for advanced breast cancer in 2008, but last year studies of almost 3,000 women showed the drug could cause life-threatening complications, delayed tumor growth by only three months or less, and, on average, did not extend the lives of patients. so the f.d.a. said ited to withdraw approval. dr. gary lyman of duke university was one of those on the f.d.a. panel who voted to revoke approv...

troops and an honor denied. >> i feel that to the core of my being this is about justice for my son. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, we're beginning tonight with what is, for women with breast cancer, a matter of life and death. the f.d.a. opened a hearing today to decide whether to end its approval of the drug avastin as a treatment for advanced breast cancer. the drug costs nearly $100,000 a year and there's serious doubt about how well it works. we asked dr. jon lapook to introduce us to the people whose lives ...