Chakshu | Degenerative Ocular Diseases

Health Dilemma. Why does the leading cause of blindness in the world have no therapeutic treatment? Almost 100% of the population develop cataract because this disease is generally brought on by the aging process. In the U.S., alone, more than 80 million people go untreated for cataract...and this will only get worse with the increasing aging population.

An Unmet Need—The lone treatment for cataract is lens replacement surgery, available typically for late stage cataract. Surgery is performed merely on 1.5 million of the 87 million Americans estimated to have some level of cataract. People in the U.S. begin to develop cataract around the age of 50, and the average age of cataract surgery¹is 72. This means over 80 million people suffer from gradual vision loss while they wait up to 20 years to be eligible for surgery.

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1 Source: Medicare

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