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Two-drug therapy for lung cancer
Patients age 70 or older with lung cancer should get two drugs rather than the currently recommended single-drug therapy, scientists in France report online August 9 in the Lancet. The researchers randomly assigned 448 lung cancer patients, median age 77, to get either two standard chemotherapies or one.