Avastin is used with other anticancer medicines to treat: • metastatic cancer of the colon (part of the large intestine) or rectum, in combination with chemotherapy (anticancer medicines) that includes a ‘ fluoropyrimidine’ (such as 5-fluorouracil). ‘ Metastatic’ means that the cancer has spread to other parts of the body; • metastatic breast cancer in combination with paclitaxel; • advanced, metastatic or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer that is unresectable (cannot be removed by surgery alone) in patients whose cancer cells are not of the ‘ squamous ’ type, in combination with chemotherapy that includes a ‘ platinum-based ’ medicine; • advanced or metastatic kidney cancer, in combination with interferon alfa-2a.