Pill as good as chemo on lung cancer, but costlier
Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 19:29
in Health & Medicine
LONDON (AP) -- Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international study showed patients on Iressa, an expensive, newer targeted treatment, survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy....