One in five lung cancer sufferers have a particularly virulent strain called small cell lung cancer which kills all but three per cent of sufferers within five years of diagnoses.

1/5的癌症患者带有一种特别的有毒病株，称为小细胞肺癌，这种肺癌五年内杀死了近3%的确诊患者。

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Prof Seckl said: "I have been working on small cell lung cancer for many years and to find something that can take a measurable piece of tumour and make it go away is wonderful.

塞克尔教授说：“我研究小细胞肺癌多年，发现能够消除大块肿瘤并使之消失是件美妙的事。”

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Pfizer’s crizotinib attacks a protein encoded by a gene found in fewer than 5% of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.

辉瑞公司的crizotinib攻击某种蛋白质，这种蛋白质由在不到5%的非小细胞肺癌患者中发现的一种基因编码。

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Pharmion has a treatment for small cell lung cancer that is about to enter a late-stage clinical trial.

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Wyeth's Torisel didn't help small-cell lung cancer patients in a 2007 trial.

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Patients with a particular type of lung cancer, called squamous cell carcinoma, were excluded from the trial because a previous study had found that they were more likely than other patients to experience bleeding of the lungs with Avastin therapy.

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