MIDDLE EAST TAPENTADOL MARKET ANALYSIS

Market Challenges And Opportunities

Rising incidence of cancer and diabetic neuropathy in the Middle East is expected to fuel growth of the Middle East tapentadol market

According to data published in World Journal of Diabetes in 2016, the Middle Eastern and North African regions are estimated to have the second-highest rate of diabetes in the world, in turn, increasing prevalence of neuropathic pain. In Arab World, the prevalence of diabetes is projected to increase to 96.2% by 2035, as estimated by World Journal of Diabetes in 2016. Furthermore, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that in the Eastern Mediterranean region, including Middle East, recorded 555,318 new cases of cancer in 2012, which is projected to rise to 961,098 by 2030. Thus determining that the Eastern Mediterranean region is expected to have the highest relative increase of cancer cases among all regions in the world. According to Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences, 2016, the number of people suffering from diabetic neuropathic pain in countries of the Middle East were as follows:

Absence of gold standard opioid therapy for neuropathic pain other than tapentadol is expected to fuel the Middle East tapentadol market growth

Neuropathic pain is caused by a dysfunction of or lesion to the central or peripheral nervous system and it is chronic in nature with a complex pathophysiology. NUCYNTA ER (tapentadol) is used in the treatment of neuropathic pain, if the pain is severe enough to require tapentadol daily, whereas it is also used in long-term opioid treatment for which alternative treatment options are inadequate. There is low quality evidence that the oral tramadol has any important beneficial effect on pain for people suffering from severe or moderate neuropathic pain, whereas the main indication of tapentadol is to treat the diabetic neuropathic pain. This proves that other opioids such as fentanyl, oxycodone, tramadol, and oxymorphone are not as effective as tapentadol in the treatment of neuropathic pain.