BASEL, Switzerland & MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Roche and OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: OSIP) announced today that Tarceva® (erlotinib) has been approved in Japan for the treatment of patients with nonresectable, recurrent and advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) which is aggravated following chemotherapy. The Japanese Ministry of Health approval means that lung cancer patients in Japan will now have an important new treatment, which has been demonstrated to increase overall survival and offer an improvement in quality of life. NSCLC is suffered by over one million people worldwide. It is the most common form of lung cancer and is more deadly than colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined.1 In 2005, the number of newly diagnosed patients with NSCLC in Japan reached 85,000.2
