'LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc suffered its third setback in two months on Friday as lung cancer drug Iressa failed to help patients live longer in a major clinical trial, sending its shares down more than 8 percent. '
This is after a trial of 1692 patients . It failed to do better than the placebo in extending life in NSCLC patients . OSIP , manuf of Tarciva , a drug already proven to extend life in NSCLC jumped 45% on the news , to $US68.38 for a market cap of 3.46B . NSCLC is one of the possible targets of Solbecs Coramsine .
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