The drug did seem to help non-small-cell lung cancer patients live slightly longer compared with a control group.
Telecom equipment makers and carriers both are working on small-cell enhanced network topologies.
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Additional studies will evaluate the effectiveness of the pill in glioblastoma, a lethal brain tumor, small-cell lung cancer and prostate cancer.
This means creating small-cell SoCs with unprecedented levels of scalability, performance, security and manageability and the ability to offer differentiating capabilities.
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Pfizer found that a drug designed to harness the immune system to fight cancer was not effective in treating non-small-cell lung cancer.
Wyeth's Torisel didn't help small-cell lung cancer patients in a 2007 trial.
Last April, Tarceva, promoted with OSI Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: OSIP - news - people ), extended survival in non-small-cell lung cancer patients.
Companies like iDirect are promoting an alternative - small-cell technology, which allows mobile operators to backhaul data from sites, no larger than the average satellite dish.
At the end of two years, 22% of non-small-cell lung cancer patients who received Avastin with their chemotherapy were alive, compared to 17% who received only chemotherapy.
AstraZeneca's shocker Monday: Iressa, which had had an effect in 10% or more of non-small-cell lung cancer patients who had failed chemotherapy, did not seem to help at all when added to patients who were on chemotherapy.
Also important, this processing power combined with advanced digital radio interface and signaling capabilities enables small-cell base stations to operate in a more efficient and dynamic mesh network, as opposed to a relatively static, point-to-point macro only system.
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Genentech's Avastin was tested with Taxol in non-small-cell lung cancer (see " Genentech's Triumph"), and can be used with either Eloxatin or Camptosar, which is made by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).
TOKYO, JAPAN, November 16, 2012 --- NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it has developed the world's first dual-mode small-cell base station, or femtocell, supporting 3G (W-CDMA) and LTE simultaneously for improved service coverage in indoor locations such as offices, shops and homes.
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This morning, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it had approved the AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) drug for treating advanced cases of non-small-cell lung cancer, which is the most common form of lung cancer in the United States.
However, on a July 31 conference call, Bristol's Cornelius said the deal had been inspired not just by the improving prospects for Erbitux, which recently had good study results in non-small-cell lung cancer, but also by the promising experimental cancer drugs ImClone has advanced over the past two years.
In order for network operators to effectively deploy and manage such a large number of distributed access points (one analyst recently predicted 12 small cells will be deployed for each macro base station), these small-cell base stations need to be compact, inexpensive, energy efficient, reliable and easily manageable by the same system that operates macro cells.
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Late in the trading day on Monday, March 14, Genentech shares were up 25% on volume more than triple its average for the past three months on news that data from a trial showed its cancer drug Avastin, approved to treat colorectal cancer since last year, extended lives of some patients with non-small-cell lung cancer an average of 2.3 months.
Separately, Pfizer said that the Food and Drug Administration has approved Xalkori capsules, which the company calls the first-ever drug targeting anaplastic lymphoma kinase, or ALK, for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer that is ALK-positive.
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It seems to be particularly important for the growth and survival of some cancer cells and large amounts of the molecule are often present in the cells of non-small cell lung cancers, sometimes in a mutated, over-active form.
There are two other non-small cell lung cancer trials of Nexavar listed on clinicaltrials.gov.
He explained that she had a non-small cell lung cancer that had started in her left lung.
Recentin, for non-small cell lung cancer and colon cancer, will go to the FDA in 2009 or later.
Down the road, it could also gain approval for pancreatic, head and neck, and non-small cell lung cancer.
Zactima, for non-small cell lung cancer, should be filed with the Food and Drug Administration toward the end of next year.
One is crizotinib, for 5% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
Vandetanib, the drug approved today, failed in non-small cell lung cancer and in bladder cancer before it proved effective in medullary thyroid cancer.
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In trials unveiled in May, Iressa shrank tumors in 10% or more of patients with non-small cell lung cancer who had failed other chemotherapies.
The first data on Iressa were promising: It seemed to help patients with non-small cell lung cancer when it was given on its own.
Tarceva has already produced promising results in a trial on patients with non-small cell lung cancer who had already been heavily treated with chemotherapy.
Sandusky is allowed out of the small cell -- which features a toilet, sink and bed -- once a day to take a shower.
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