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OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

CORRECTING AND REPLACING Data from the Phase III SATURN Study Show Tarceva Improved Progression-Free Survival When Used as a First-Line Maintenance Therapy for Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 2nd, 2009

Eighth graph, third sentence should read: Fifty-five percent of patients in the Tarceva arm and 64% of patients on placebo received subsequent therapy after progressing. (sted Sixty-four percent of patients in the Tarceva arm and 55% of patients on placebo received subsequent therapy after progressing.)

The corrected release reads: DATA FROM THE PHASE III SATURN STUDY SHOW TARCEVA IMPROVED PROGRESSION-FREE SURVIVAL WHEN USED AS A FIRST-LINE MAINTENANCE THERAPY FOR ADVANCED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER -- Data Showed Tarceva Improved PFS in Patients with Both Non-Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- Patients with an EGFR Mutation Achieved a 10 Fold...

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