New study analyze efforts for improved treatments of melanoma
In Europe and the US there are close to 20 million people that live with cancer today, a figure that is increasing. 6.2 million people worldwide died of cancer in 2002. The American Cancer Society estimates that approximately 1.2 million new cancer cases were diagnosed in the year 2002 in the US. Overall annual costs associated with cancer currently amount to $107 billion in the United States alone. The worldwide anti-cancer market was valued at more than $15 billion in 1998 and is projected to nearly double by 2003. Approximately 30% of all collaborative deals are signed in the field of cancer.