Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Cancer drugs cost the world 100 billion Dollar



 rHe said a medical report released Tuesday that global spending on cancer drugs reached  100 billion
in 2014, an increase of 10.3 percent from 2013 and
that the total amount was75 billion dollar just five years ago.
According to a report titled "Global Trends for oncology", issued by the Institute of Healthcare Information (Aa.am.as) percent that billion dollars, representing 10.8 percent of total global spending on medications and they include drugs to help treat nausea and anemia, for example.

The report pointed out that such a large increase in spending behind new therapies expensive in developed markets.

Institute predicted that the market value of the rise in 2018 to between 117 and 147 billion dollars.

The United States topped the list of spending and its share was 42.2 percent of total spending then came the five major markets in Europe: Germany, France, Britain, Spain and Italy.

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