Oncology Therapeutics Network
Executive Summary
Recent technological upgrades help explain a lower-than-usual 17% growth rate during second quarter, Bristol's Winningham explains. An e-commerce initiative undertaken in 1999 has "been able to help physician's offices carry lower relative inventories of oncology products." Similarly, the installation of 750 dispensing machines in oncologist's offices in the U.S. has reduced inventory levels. The new services, coupled with a lack of new oncology product launches in the first half of 2000, explain the drop-off from 36% growth in 1999, he said