Chas­ing Roche's ag­ing block­buster fran­chise, Am­gen/Al­ler­gan roll out Avastin, Her­ceptin knock­offs at dis­count

Let the long bat­tle for biosim­i­lars in the can­cer space be­gin.

Am­gen has launched its Avastin and Her­ceptin copy­cats — li­censed from the pre­de­ces­sors of Al­ler­gan — al­most two years af­ter the FDA had stamped its ap­proval on Mvasi (be­va­cizum­ab-awwb) and three months af­ter the Kan­jin­ti OK (trastuzum­ab-anns). While the biotech had been field­ing biosim­i­lars in Eu­rope, this marks their first for­ay in the US — and the first on­col­o­gy biosim­i­lars in the coun­try.

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