In lung cancer, it keeps the disease under control for a median of nine months, doctors said.

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When his disease was discovered, he read that the median time from diagnosis to death was eight months.

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In the original study, including all comers, Erbitux only delayed the progression of the disease by about 15%, which works out to a median of a month.

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