New treatment strategy effective for certain lung cancers
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 16:20
in Health & Medicine
Two chemotherapy drugs now indicated for second and third-line therapy in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer are remarkably effective in treating a certain subset of these patients, new study suggests. Researchers say these drugs should be considered as a first-line treatment in people who are known to carry an epidermal growth factor receptor mutation.