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The Search for Prostate-Specific Answers

 
• By Mary Stuart

Diseases of the prostate constitute the second most prevalent type of chronic disease in the male population in the US. The recent report "US Markets for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Prostate Disease/Disorder Management Products," a report published in August 2007 by the Medtech Insight division of Windhover Information, details the state-of-the industry for companies working in benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostate cancer, and prostatitis. A brief excerpt on biomarkers for prostate cancer appears here.

Diseases of the prostate constitute the second most prevalent type of chronic disease in the male population in the US, because they share with heart disease, the number one killer, a preference for men aged 50 and over. According to " US Markets for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Prostate Disease/Disorder Management Products," a report published in August 2007 by the Medtech Insight division of Windhover Information, in 2006 there were more than 234,000 new cases of prostate cancer as well as 1.4 million prostate cancer survivors. (See Exhibit 1.)

The five-year survival rate for prostate cancer has improved in the past 20 years, rising from 67% to 96%, largely...

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