Pills for lung cancer patients
November 27th, 2008
A DAILY oral tablet works just as well as chemotherapy in first-line treatment for advanced lung cancer patients who are Asian and non-smokers, recent studies have revealed.
Previously, the pill Iressa was already known to work on Asians, women and non-smokers afflicted with a type of lung cancer called adenocarcinoma, and whose disease had progressed despite chemotherapy.