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Cancer Drug Development in The New York Times

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The fastest-growing part of the biotech/pharma industry is anticancer drugs, according to an article in The New York Times today ("For Profit, Industry Seeks Cancer Drugs"). Written by Andrew Pollack, one of the paper's senior business and technology writers, the article highlights the interplay between scientific interest and business opportunity driving this phenomenon. The article supports its thesis on the recent rise in anticancer drugs with some telling statistics: there are "more than twice the number of experimental drugs for heart disease and stroke combined, nearly twice as many as for AIDS and all other...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on September 03, 2009 (boomark / email).