Pfizer's Announced The Launch Of Trastuzumab Biosimilar For Global Herceptin Biosimilar Market
The growing prevalence of cancers such as breast cancer in women is driving the growth of the global Herceptin biosimilar market. According to the World Health Organization’s report published in 2019, approximately 627,000 women across the globe died from breast cancer and it accounted for around 15% of all cancer deaths among women in 2018. Also, the rising prevalence of gastric cancers such as metastatic gastric cancer is again contributing to the growth of the Herceptin biosimilar market. According to the US National Library of Medicine’s report published in 2018, gastric cancer is the fifth most common neoplasm in people and the third most deadly cancer across the globe. According to the same source, gastric cancer accounted for around 783,000 death globally in 2018.
Key
players engaged in the global Herceptin biosimilar market include AryoGen
Biopharma, Amgen Inc., Biocon
Limited, Pfizer Inc., Merck & Co.,
Inc., Celltrion Inc., Accord Healthcare Ltd, Gedeon Richter Plc, Genor
Biopharma Company Ltd, Mabion SA, Mylan N.V, Roche Holding AG and
Samsungbioepis Co,.Ltd
North
America is expected to lead the global Herceptin biosimilar market due to the
increasing number of companies focusing on obtaining approvals and launching
products for the treatment of cancers such as gastric cancer and breast cancer.
For instance, in 2019, Amgen Inc. and Allergan collaboratively launched KANJINTI
(trastuzumab) for treatment of HER2-overexpressing adjuvant and metastatic
breast cancer and HER2-overexpressing metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal
junction adenocarcinoma. KANJINTI received approval from the U.S. Food Drug and
Administration and can be used for the treatment of breast cancer and gastric
cancer throughout the U.S.
1. In February 2020, Pfizer's
announced the launch of trastuzumab biosimilar to Herceptin. Trazimera is
available for the treatment of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2
(HER2)-overexpressing breast cancer and HER2-overexpressing metastatic gastric
or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma
2. In April 2020, Merck began its US
launch of the trastuzumab biosimilar Ontruzant at a 15% discount to the
biologic medicine Herceptin
3. In June 2019, The US Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) approved Amgen’s Kanjinti (trastuzumab-anns), which
is the fifth biosimilar to be approved for Roche’s Herceptin (trastuzumab) and
20th biosimilar overall
Herceptin
Biosimilar is a new combination drug that has been formulated to treat
different types of cancers. The main active component is Herceptin, which acts
on the promoters of collagen and elastin production in the body. Herceptin
Biosimilar has been clinically proven to reduce breast tumor size in women with
breast cancer that had not responded to hormonal therapy alone. This drug has
also been found to be effective in reducing the size of ovarian tumors in men.
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