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How The Prostate Cancer Market Will Look Over Next Decade

 
• By Kevin Grogan

As generic competition to J&J's Zytiga starts to line up ahead of possible launches in October, Datamonitor Healthcare has been weighing up the prostate cancer therapy space and seeing where the future competition will come from for Pfizer and Astellas' market leader Xtandi.

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The prostate cancer therapy market is set to keep growing • Source: Shutterstock

Now that Johnson & Johnson's blockbuster Zytiga (abiraterone acetate) is to be hit by generic competition later this year in the US, analysts at Datamonitor Healthcare have been looking at the next drivers of the prostate cancer market.

Earlier this month, the US Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) invalidated the composition and method of use patent on Zytiga, which is indicated in combination...

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