But that phrase, "marginally extend the lives of the very sick," should ring in the ears.
Health care dollars being spent to extend the lives of men with prostate cancer are not a waste.
Yet another experimental drug has shown it can extend the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer.
Instead, our main achievements today consist of devising ways to marginally extend the lives of the very sick".
"Our spending on research and development has underpinned our ability to safely extend the lives of our nuclear power stations.
Future treatments may well reduce the rate further -- or extend the lives of people suffering from diseases like cancer.
InterMune, based in Brisbane, Calif., had a previous setback when a different drug, called Actimmune, failed to extend the lives of patients with pulmonary fibrosis.
A new radiation therapy can extend the lives of men with the most advanced form of prostate cancer, a large new study has found.
And given the delay, it will have to spend tens of millions to extend the lives of some of the older helicopters until the new ones are ready.
Taken on its own, the drug appeared to extend the lives of patients with metastatic melanoma by months or even years.
Only last autumn the government had agreed to extend the lives of some nuclear-power stations by an average of 12 years.
