Capital Allocation: Principles, Strategies, and Processes for Creating Long-Term Shareholder Value

CHAPTER 21

Supply/Demand Imbalance

Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men. With the exception of lung cancer, it kills more men than any other form of cancer. According to a paper published in the World Journal of Oncology, in 2018 alone, 1.3 million men were diagnosed with prostate cancer and 359,000 died.¹

Metastatic prostate cancer is prostate cancer that has spread to other organs such as the lymph nodes, bones, lungs, or liver. While prostate cancer survival rates have improved dramatically over the last couple of decades, especially in developed countries, metastatic prostate cancer is more serious and has a lower survival rate.

Given the high incidence of prostate cancer, and in particular the dangers associated with ...