Decision Resources

Sales of Genentech/Roche/Chugai's Herceptin for breast cancer to triple by 2015, report says

Published in Oncology Business Week, July 23rd, 2006

Decision Resources, Inc., a research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that sales of Genentech/Roche/Chugai's Herceptin (trastuzumab) will nearly triple, reaching $3.3 billion in 2015.

The finding followed positive data from several phase 3 clinical trials that show improved disease-free survival of breast cancer patients.

The new Pharmacor report titled "Breast Cancer" finds that growth in both breast cancer market segments, chemotherapy and hormonal treatments, will be driven by the expansion of established agents, particularly Herceptin and Novartis's Femara (letrozole), from the metastatic into the adjuvant...

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