Advances in treatment, however, have prolonged lives.
But in studies, it has not prolonged lives significantly.
While chemotherapy has prolonged lives, it is running up against limits.
Chambers was born in Whitby, England, into a poor seafaring family, where artistic talent literally saved or at least prolonged lives.
To measure whether the drug prolonged lives, the company was to compare survival on both arms of the trial.
Then there's the seldom-discussed fact that some people who develop terminal illnesses don't welcome prolonged lives.
The National Breast Cancer Coalition, a patient advocacy group, argued that researchers should have continued the study to see if the new drug prolonged lives.
More important, in a statistical twist, they may have actually benefited from the financial crisis in the most fundamental way: prolonged lives.
It is still too early to say definitively that T-DM1 also prolonged lives, because not enough time has elapsed since the trial began.
[Page A1.] News on Cancer Drug Lifts Stock Only two months after winning approval for its highly anticipated cancer drug, Avastin, Genentech said that another of its cancer drugs, Tarceva, had also prolonged lives in a large clinical trial.
In a late-stage clinical trial involving more than 300 patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, glufosfamide prolonged lives compared with no treatment, but not by a statistically significant amount.
