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[rancher64]

SOC: Standard of Care.
- for a disease the drug or drugs that are used first as standard treatment.

DME: Diabetic Macular Edema - it's a eye disease where ALIM's drug candidate ILUVIEN is used. Macula is the central part of eye (inside), a damaged macula first causes central vision blindness and eventually leads to full blindness. Macula can have various other diseases, the disease Macula gets due to diabetes, is called DME.

10% of diabetes patients get DME. DME is about $2B+ market and growing at about 20% annual rate as diabetes growing fast as a global epidemic. ILUVIEN getting market share at fast pace because of its superiority in efficacy, administration, safety and pricing than its 3/4 competitors.