Stockwatch: Salutary lessons in drug commercialization
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Last week, personalized cancer vaccine company Dendreon appeared to be in terminal decline as it struggles with low sales of its expensive product for prostate cancer, Provenge (sipuleucel-T), in the face of cheaper, more easily administered and more efficacious competition, and also with a large debt mountain. Dendreon is a rare and, you would think, salutary event in life science investing.