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- Higher Incidences of Cancer
- Improved treatments and survival rates
increase in cancer cases from 50%
- Cancer is becoming a chronic disease
- Global Chemotherapy production turns to
Automation
- More complex compounding and mixing
(9+ drugs)
- Cytostatics growing 15-20% per year
- Pharmacist/Nursing Shortages
- Patient and Clinician Safety
- CDC studies, guidelines
- OSHA studies, guidelines
- All Cancer Protocols need to be re-written by
2009
- Accuracy will become even more critical due
to complexity of treatments