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According to the new report entitled Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer(Advanced): Current Gold-Standard Therapy Continues to Be Most Efficacious;physicians indicate that the most promising emerging therapies for thetreatment of non-small-cell lung cancer will not match the current gold-standard regimen comprising Roche/Genentech/Chugai's Avastin, Bristol-MyersSquibb's Taxol, and Bristol-Myers Squibb's Paraplatin.
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"Although some therapies in development for advanced NSCLC hold promise,most have efficacy, safety and tolerability, and/or delivery features thatmerit inferior scores compared with the Avastin/Taxol/Paraplatin regimen,"said Andrew Merron, Ph.D., analyst at Decision Resources. "A therapy's effecton overall survival is the attribute that most influences prescribingdecisions in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. Data and the opinions ofinterviewed thought leaders indicate that Avastin/Taxol/Paraplatin hasadvantages over the sales-leading combination of Sanofi-Aventis's Taxotere andBristol-Myers Squibb's Platinol-AQ on overall survival."
About the Report
Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (Advanced): Current Gold-Standard TherapyContinues to Be Most Efficacious is a DecisionBase 2008 report from DecisionResources. DecisionBase 2008 combines market forecasts with clinical andcommercial end points to assess market share projections in 35 indications.These outputs are driven by quantitative and qualitative primary research.DecisionBase 2008 provides detailed market share, patient share, and price-per-day projections for emerging drugs in development. The market shareprojections are based on prescriber surveys that compare physicians'expectations of a potential target product profile with an emerging productprofile of the leading drugs in development.
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