FDA is committed to expanding access to safe and effective treatment options for patients with rare, debilitating, and sometimes fatal diseases. These patients face unique medical challenges. Sometimes there isn’t an FDA-approved drug to adequately address the needs of a patient with a rare disease. Therefore, the agency needs to take new steps to enable more patients with unmet needs to get access to promising treatments prior to full FDA approval.
Antineoplastic or anticancer drugs, affect the process of cell division i.e. are antiproliferative. They damage the DNA and initiate apoptosis, preventing the development and spread of neoplastic cells. Commonly used antineoplastic drugs can be divided into the following six categories: alkylating agents, anti-metabolites, anticancerous, antibiaties, aminoglutethimide and others. Today, Ddu, the leading global pharmaceutical & medical device B2B online platform, shares China’s Import and Export Report of Antineoplastic Drugs with you. General situation of global market of antineoplastic drugs According to the IMS’s latest report, “Global Oncology Trends 2017” showed that in 2016 the global market sales of antineoplastic drugs were 89.6 billion USD and 85 billion USD in 2015. Over the past five years, the global market of antineoplastic drugs has grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.7% and is expected to exceed 147 billion USD by 2021. As indicated on the chart, the United States, the European Union and Japan are still the driving ...
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Researchers combine 3D printing and robotic surgery with advanced manufacturing. Credit: 2017 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
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Keytruda (pembrolizumab) was the main bright spot for Merck as it weathered blows from the NotPetya cyber attack, new competition and pricing pressures in hepatitis C.
Now, in a new study published today in Nature, UNC researchers report a breakthrough. They have used single cell RNA sequencing technology in combination with mathematical modeling and genetic and chemical approaches to delineate the step-by-step molecular changes that occur during cell fate conversion from fibroblast to cardiomyocyte.
AbbVie (ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, and Alector, a privately owned biotechnology company, announced a global strategic collaboration to develop and commercialize medicines to treat Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Novartis today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) for Tafinlar® (dabrafenib) in combination with Mekinist® (trametinib) for the adjuvant treatment of patients with stage III melanoma with a BRAF V600 mutation following complete resection. Tafinlar in combination with Mekinist is in development to become the first adjuvant treatment specifically for melanoma patients with a BRAF V600 mutation.
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