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“I will never be the same after what I have gone through.

The medical bills, doctor visits and prescriptions alone have cost more than $100,000,” Lindquist said.

“If my story helps at least one person avoid the hell I have had to endure, I will have made my point.” Lindquist then pulled off her wig, revealing a head left hairless by chemotherapy.

“I can’t change the past, but we can all change the future,” she said.

Her testimony set off a rare round of applause in the hearing room, and left some daubing at their eyes.

Much of the debate on House Bill 1177 was a repeat of testimony that a House committee heard two months ago.

The harmful effects of second-hand smoke — including cancer, lung ailments and heart disease — were disputed as junk science by some, as proven fact proven by others.

Individual freedoms, and protection of workers and free capitalism also were argued.

The Senate Finance Committee plans to vote on the bill today.

Senate President Ted Gatsas, R-Manchester, and Senate Majority Leader Robert Clegg, R-Hudson, appear to have the five votes needed to kill it.

Clegg and committee chairman Sen.

Chuck Morse, R-Salem, sa...

Patients are under served, with limited treatment options available leading to poor prognosis.

The current standard treatment consisting of epirubicin in combination with cisplatin and 5-FU offers a median overall survival of 8.9 months.

However, with Taxotere demonstrating an overall median of 9.2 months, and thus just a three week survival improvement, the approval is unlikely to bring a dramatic improvement to the treatment of gastric cancer.Similarly, the approval is unlikely to add significantly to Taxotere's sales.

By initially targeting three of the 'big four' tumor types - breast cancer, prostate cancer and By targeting those tumor types where no standard of care or only ineffective treatment exists, any positive clinical trial data is bound to result in significant uptake of the drug.

While unlikely to add significant amounts to Taxotere’s t...