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AstraZeneca stops trial of lung cancer drug

clinical trial.jpgAstraZeneca, the pharmaceutical group, has stopped a trial of an experimental medicine to treat lung cancer amid safety concerns.

Recentin, a drug that aims to starve tumours by cutting off their blood supply, was being tested for non-small cell lung cancer - the most common form of lung cancer - in a trial in Canada.

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