South America America Pancreatic Cancer Therapeutics and Diagnostics Market Trends

Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to destroy cancer cells, usually by ending the cancer cells ability to grow and divide. A chemotherapy regimen, or schedule, usually consists of a specific number of cycles given over a set period of time. There is usually a rest period in between cycles. A patient may receive 1 drug at a time or a combination of different drugs given at the same time. Chemotherapy thus is an important part of multimodality pancreatic cancer treatment. After curative resection, adjuvant chemotherapy can significantly improve disease-free survival and overall survival. Therefore this will increase the demand for chemotherapy therapy in future, which is expected to help the market growth.