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Big pharma and cancer

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Saw this interesting post on immunotherapy in the Financial Times in the waiting room.

Go to ft.com/pharmaceuticals

There was also an article: « Drugmakers take an unorthodox route to cancer biosimilars »

about the NHS buying Chinese biosimilar version, which they call « copycat » of Rituximab, Trastuzumab marketed as Herceptin, Bevacizumab marketed as Avastin.

So the chief pharmacist at the Royal Marsden is achieving savings etc..

I wish we were in the business of saving lives..

I don’t like generics maybe I am shortsighted still 😃

Love

Fran x

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r u ok its me helen your friend who has that address.tell me

if u are not madame ps I like that song edif piaff sings she had a tragic life.

she had Algerian blood in her I like both la vie en rose and the sad one regrets

no life in pink 4 some people on this board is there mon amie?

Hi Fran Biologics and biosimilars are also used for autoimmune diseases like Ra or Vasculitis. I have both and many others like me depend on biosimilars like Truxima (Rituximab) . As far as Vasculitis (and cancer) are concerned, they are life saving drugs. They have been passed by NICE, and save the NHS thousands of pounds.

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Thank you for the info 😊

We have Sirolimus for LAM, which I suffer from, it was a cancer drug in the first place..which is why I was interested in the article, and the outcome..

Methotrexate was also a cancer drug originally but is a DMARD and not a biologic. As far as I know, they haven't created a cheaper copy of it yet. :-)

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