{"id":96510,"date":"2016-07-21T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/amgen-allergan-biosimilar-found-as-effective-as-roche-cancer-drug\/"},"modified":"2016-07-21T14:49:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:49:38","slug":"amgen-allergan-biosimilar-found-as-effective-as-roche-cancer-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/amgen-allergan-biosimilar-found-as-effective-as-roche-cancer-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Amgen, Allergan biosimilar found as effective as Roche cancer drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"articleText\"><br \/>\n<span id=\"midArticle_start\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"focusParagraph\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">Amgen Inc and Allergan Plc said their copycat version of Roche Holding AG&#8217;s blockbuster cancer treatment, Herceptin, was found as effective as the original in a late-stage study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span id=\"midArticle_0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were no &#8220;clinically meaningful&#8221; differences in data gathered from patients given Herceptin and the copycat version, ABP 980, to treat a type of early breast cancer, said Sean Harper, Amgen&#8217;s executive vice president of research and development.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; We believe that the totality of the evidence we&#8217;ve generated supports ABP 980 as highly similar to the reference product,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"first-article-divide\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roche&#8217;s Herceptin is an injected biologic drug made from living cells. Biologics are more complex than traditional pills and cannot be copied with precision, and so, their knock-off versions are called biosimilars instead of generics.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Herceptin, which generated sales of more than 6 billion Swiss francs last year, is also approved for use in forms of metastatic breast cancer and gastric cancer.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"second-article-divide\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shares of Amgen and Allergan were flat in morning trading on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"third-article-divide\" \/><\/p>\n<p \/><span id=\"midArticle_6\" \/><\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Dipika Jain; Editing by Savio D&#8217;Souza)<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_7\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amgen Inc and Allergan Plc said their copycat version of Roche Holding AG&#8217;s blockbuster cancer treatment, Herceptin, was found as effective as the original in a late-stage study. There were no &#8220;clinically meaningful&#8221; differences in data gathered from patients given Herceptin and the copycat version, ABP 980, to treat a type of early breast cancer, <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/amgen-allergan-biosimilar-found-as-effective-as-roche-cancer-drug\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}