Overall, the forecast for Alzheimer's disease, including disease-modifying therapeutics, therapeutics that treat related symptoms, diagnostics and imaging, is set to increase exponentially. This market was worth $8 billion in 2009 and is expected to reach $9.6 billion by 2014, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.7%.
Diagnostics and biomarkers are expected to increase at a 5-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 20%. This segment was worth $1.2 billion in 2009 and is expected to reach $2.9 billion by 2014.
The imaging sector was worth $361 million in 2009 and is expected to increase at a nearly 19% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach $852 million in 2014.