Extending the Spectrum of Precompetitive Collaboration in Oncology Research: Workshop Summary

by National Research Council

Despite spending more time and money in developing novel therapeutics, the success rate for new pharmacologic treatments has been poor. Although the research and development expenditures have grown 13 percent each year since 1970 (a 50-fold increase), the number of new drugs approved annually is no greater now than it was 50 years ago. Over the past decade, skyrocketing costs and the complexity of the scientific knowledge upon which to develop...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309156548
• ISBN13: 9780309156547
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 112 Pages