Report Overview

In a market currently valued around US$42 billion, cancer chemotherapies are on course for staggering growth potential and may revolutionize cancer treatments over the next 10 years according to Spectra's expert cancer report. "The chemotherapy market is currently the fastest growing in the pharmaceutical industry, driven by the explosion of potential therapeutic targets revealed by the molecular genetic assessments of cancer biology and fuelled by the magnitude of the disease worldwide, which shows every indication of increased incidence and sustained mortality rates over the next decade" says report author Dr Sarah Crawford PhD, Director of Experimental Chemotherapy at Southern Connecticut State University, USA and Associate Professor of Biology.

With more than 25 million people affected by cancer globally, and an estimated 5 million people dying each year as a result of cancer, new treatments are clearly needed to curtail these high mortality statistics despite the availability of effective cancer drugs such as Herceptin and Avastin. Dr Crawford cautions however that although there are very exciting and promising novel cancer therapeutics on the horizon with limitless potential, enthusiasm must be tempered by the need to identify those chemotherapy approaches that may have the greatest potential for therapeutic success and suggests that there is a need to distinguish important new entries to the cancer therapeutics market from those therapy approaches that may not fare as well on the world market.

Chemotherapy Market Insights, 2006-2016: A Critical Analysis of Cancer Research, Treatments, Pipelines, and Commercial Opportunities, provides an in-depth assessment and analysis of the global cancer therapy market. Included in this study are critical analyses of key therapeutic areas, epidemiological, aetiological, and healthcare data, R&D programs, and innovating companies and products. The reader will benefit from authoritative critical review, market forecasts to 2016, pooled knowledge of recent industrial activities and events, and from analytical discourse, which is intended to stimulate research and industrial growth, and create new market opportunities.