The Problem
Although there are more than 600 children in the US affected by neuroblastoma it is considered a rare disorder. Advances in cancer therapy are allowing therapies to become individualized and drugs such as immune therapies are targeted to a specific kind of cancer. Because of the rising cost of development of new drugs which is approaching $1 billion pharmaceutical companies are not likely to develop promising drugs which are specific to neuroblastoma or other rare disorders.
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