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Country focus: China & APAC’s growing medical needs bring opportunities and challenges

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All these factors will support the growth of in-house R&D-driven pharmaceutical companies and bring more innovative drugs to Asian markets.”. Chemotherapy still accounted for 72.6% Mei says that oncology is one of the key region-specific unmet medical needs Antengene is hoping to address with innovative drugs.

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Beating the Big C

Pharmaceutical Technology

The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced in June 2008 that it would be putting its “full scope and scale” behind a push into the cancer market. ” “Between 2003 and 2005 global sales for cancer-treating drugs grew by 40%.” So what’s driving the growth?