Lung Cancer Pill Cuts Risk of Death by Half, Study Finds

The Guardian reports:A pill taken once a day cuts the risk of dying from lung cancer by half, according to "thrilling" and "unprecedented" results from a decade-long global study. Taking the drug osimertinib after surgery dramatically reduced the risk of patients dying by 51%, results presented at the world's largest cancer conference showed...
Everyone in the trial had a mutation of the EGFR gene, which is found in about a quarter of global lung cancer cases, and accounts for as many as 40% of