Excerpt from “Worldwide Ablation Technologies”, report #A125 from MedMarket Diligence.
An estimated one third of men older than 50 years develop symptoms of prostate enlargement, and 30% of these men eventually require surgery. Some 50% of men have histologic evidence of BPH by the age of 50 years, which increases to 75% in men older than [...]
(See September 2008 report #A125, “Ablation Technologies Worldwide Market, 2008-2017,” from MedMarket Diligence, LLC. May be purchased online.)
Energy-based therapies generate sales of $13 billion in the United States alone, with probably another $12 billion in other developed markets worldwide. This represents around 13% of the total medical device market, and it is growing at 11% [...]
