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Naming our drugs-how does that happen?

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Jokingly, I once started a webpage discussion suggesting that drugs were named by pulling random letters out of a bag of Scrabble letters or a Words With Friends game. One kind soul used that to explain how -mab described a monoclonal antibody (think Nivolumab/Opdivo). He went on to teach me that the suffix -nib means the drug is an inhibitor like afatnib which is used as a TKI inhibitor(also know as Gilotrif).

So today I read this blog about naming drugs. If your curious how yours came to be named check it out. lungcancer.net/clinical/dru...

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