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Video: Phase III Study Data With Vandetanib (Zactima(TM)) in Patients With Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Presented at American Society of Clinical Oncology
Date:5/30/2009

r lymph nodes, around half of patients can survive for five years or more. However, few lung cancers are found at this early stage and it is normally diagnosed at the advanced stage, when five year survival falls to approximately 15%(6).

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(1) Herbst, R. et al. Vandetanib plus docetaxel vs docetaxel as 2nd-line treatment for patients with advanced non-small-cell lung c
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