
Latest industry research report on Hormone Refractory Breast Cancer Market. Breast cancer is the most common type of malignant cancer prevalent in women above the age of 40. Cancer is the most fatal human disease accounting for the deaths of ~8.2 million people worldwide in 2012. Among these deaths, breast cancer was found to be most prominent disease among women that killed ~521,000 individuals. Presently, increasing number of hormone therapies have made refractory breast cancers resistant toward therapeutics, termed as hormone-resistant breast cancers. However, recently developed hormone refractory breast cancer chemotherapeutic agents such as, trastuzumab and everolimus, alone or in combination, are under clinical trials for the effective treatment of hormone refractory breast cancers.