Target Feast and Famine

At the other end of the spectrum, for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, research provides few targets for candidates. This 

143 pqj. example, as was seen with Herceptin (see Chapter 17). Several hundred Biotech and Big Pharma developed therapeutic antibodies in oncology where trials are fast and improvements of expected life length by just 6 months are celebrated on the first page of the New York Times. 

Bladder Cancer Brain Cancer Breast Cancer Cervical Cancer Colon Cancer Head/Neck Cancer Kidney Cancer Leukemia Liver Cancer Lung Cancer Lymphoma Multiple Myeloma Neuroblastoma Ovarian Cancer Pancreatic Cancer Prostate Cancer Sarcoma Skin Cancer Solid Tumors Stomach Cancer Cancer-Related Conditions Other Cancers Unspecified Cancers 

Some medicines are listed in more than one category. 

A snapshot of medicines in development for cancer annd 2002. The number at the right of each bar is the number of tagets pursued at the time. Thee is overlap between the categories, but of these identified 722 tagets we may only see four to five drugs emege. 

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