This Market Spotlight report covers the Hodgkin’s Lymphoma market, comprising key marketed and pipeline drugs, clinical trials, key upcoming and regulatory events, recent events and analyst opinion, patent information, a 10-year disease incidence forecast, probability of success, and licensing and acquisition deals, as well as presenting drug-specific revenue forecasts.

Key Takeaways

• Datamonitor Healthcare estimates that in 2019, there were 80,800 incident cases of Hodgkin’s lymphoma worldwide, and expects that number to increase to 86,500 incident cases by 2028.
• In the same year, there were approximately 277,600 five-year prevalent cases of Hodgkin’s lymphoma worldwide, which is expected to increase to 295,000 five-year prevalent cases by 2028.
• The approved drugs in the Hodgkin’s lymphoma space target antibody-drug conjugate, cluster of differentiation 30/tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 8, microtubules, DNA, the immune system, and programmed death-1 receptor/programmed death ligands. The majority of the approved drugs are administered via the intravenous route.
• The majority of the industry-sponsored drugs in active clinical development for Hodgkin’s lymphoma are in Phase II, with no drugs in Phase III.
• Therapies in the pipeline for Hodgkin’s lymphoma focus on a wide variety of targets. The majority of the pipeline drugs in development are administered via the oral or intravenous routes, with only one product being tested in an intratumoral formulation.
• The only high-impact upcoming event in the Hodgkin’s lymphoma space is topline Phase II trial results for ADCT-301. The overall likelihood of approval of a Phase I hematologic asset is 10%, and the average probability a drug advances from Phase III is 59.6%. Drugs, on average, take 8.9 years from Phase I to approval, compared to 9.3 years in the overall oncology space.
• There have been 36 licensing and asset acquisition deals involving Hodgkin’s lymphoma drugs during 2015–20. The largest deal was the $1,456m collaboration agreement in 2015 between Eli Lilly and Innovent Biologics for the development and potential commercialization of at least three cancer treatments over the next decade.
• The distribution of clinical trials across Phase I–IV indicates that the vast majority of trials for Hodgkin’s lymphoma have been in the early and mid-phases of development, with 94% of trials in Phase I–II, and only 6% in Phase III–IV.
• The US has a substantial lead in the number of Hodgkin’s lymphoma clinical trials globally. France leads the major European markets, while China has the top spot in Asia.
• Clinical trial activity in the Hodgkin’s lymphoma space is dominated by completed trials. Takeda has the highest number of completed clinical trials for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, with 50 trials.
• Takeda leads industry sponsors with the highest overall number of clinical trials for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, followed by Bristol Myers Squibb.