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The research was testing whether Erbitux, given with chemotherapy, extends survival of patients with cancer that has spread from the pancreas.

Treatment with temozolomide following surgical debulking extends survival rate compared to radiotherapy and debulking alone.

In colon and lung cancer, Avastin extends survival, but by only a matter of months.

Targeting cancer stem cells through genetic deletion of TLX promotes cancer stem cell death and differentiation and extends survival.

Fig. 3 Antibiotic treatment extends survival after S. pneumoniae-induced empyema which is characterized by persistent pleural fibrosis, rind formation and lung restriction.

For example, placing lab animals on a meager diet that replicates food scarcity in the wild extends survival in many species.

But the main goal of the trial was to extend survival.

New drugs are extending survival, researchers say, and some patients live for more than four years.

Genentech, the biotechnology company, said yesterday that its experimental cancer drug Avastin had failed to extend survival rates significantly in a small trial of patients with colorectal cancer.

Even so, oncologists might have felt bound to use Bexxar and Zevalin if the drugs had been proven to extend survival over older treatments, Dr. Connors said.

Only one drug has been shown to lengthen the lives of these men: the chemotherapy drug Taxotere, also called docetaxel, which has extended survival by about two and a half months.