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New Lung Cancer Treatment Regimen Shows Promise for Small Portion of Patients.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2003
By Raja Mishra, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 3--CHICAGO--A new lung cancer treatment regimen could prevent up to 10,000 deaths worldwide annually, according to a French study that provides rare positive news for sufferers of the most prolific killer among cancers.
Two other studies -- one involving a new surgery and the other a low-side-effect drug -- also reported benefits for lung cancer patients, marking a flurry of advances that researchers celebrated yesterday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference here.
But the good news was tinged with bad. The life-saving treatment described in the French study -- a combination of surgery, the drug cisplatin, which is produced by Bristol-Myers...
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