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"At this point, the cancer was highly treatable and a combination of surgery and either radiotherapy or chemotherapy could in all likelihood have extended his lifespan, " he said.
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Patients in the study were randomly assigned to receive either the NovoTTF-100A System or chemotherapy treatment.
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The marketing experience Amgen has garnered from selling Epogen, an anemia treatment that was biotech's first blockbuster, and Neupogen, a drug used to ease the side effects of chemotherapy, certainly won't hurt either.
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The study, of patients with non-small cell lung cancer who were also receiving chemotherapy, showed an increase in "local failure, " meaning cancer cells at the radiation site either weren't killed or began growing.
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