Swiss drugmaker Roche upped the company’s bet on personalized cancer treatment and is ready to sell a blood test around the world that can identify common gene mutations from solid tumors from a patient’s blood.
Insys Therapeutics Inc. agreed to pay $4.45 million to resolve a lawsuit by Illinois’ attorney general claiming it deceptively marketed an addictive fentanyl-based cancer pain drug for off-label uses.
Four in five oncologists have tried Zarxio/Granix, according to a new survey by ZS Associates. Of those, 48 percent prescribe the reference biologic more than the biosimilar, 43 percent prescribe the biosimilar more, and 8 percent have equal prescriptions for the reference biologic and the biosimilar.
