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Something like Lipitor people take forever, so its use will grow over time. This drug cures people, who no longer continue to take it. There must be a big bac
by cschmidt 13y ago
Something like Lipitor people take forever, so its use will grow over time. This drug cures people, who no longer continue to take it. There must be a big backlog of people with hepatitis C. Once you go through those people, I would expect that the use of the drug will decline, to just be people just contracting the disease.
- refurb 13y agoThere is a very large backlog of HCV patients out there with many waiting to for the improved therapies to launch. There is also a huge population of undiagnosed patients as well. You are correct that the patient population will continue to shrink as people are cured, but to give you an idea of the size of the market, if everyone in the US with HCV were treated with this drug this year, it would cost $3 trillion dollars. Total Lipitor revenues over it's entire lifecycle amounted to a little over $100 billion.