Cocktails Are Next For Cancer-Drug Makers; Big Pharma Like Roche Holding AG,AstraZeneca PLC, and Sanofi-Aventis (France) Turns to the Multi-drug Approach that Transformed AIDS

Business Week -- A diagnosis of AIDS was a death sentence until the advent of drug cocktails in the 1990s allowed patients to suppress the disease indefinitely. Now scientists say a similar combination strategy may change the course of cancer treatment.