Pfiz­er’s lat­est copy­cat could put the squeeze on Roche — again

Pfiz­er $PFE is bar­rel­ing for­ward on its plans to recre­ate Roche’s stal­wart can­cer drugs, an­nounc­ing pos­i­tive da­ta this morn­ing for its Rit­ux­an copy­cat called PF-05280586. Con­sid­er­ing Roche’s $RHH­BY re­cent back­lash to biosim­i­lar com­pe­ti­tion, it’s pos­si­ble that Pfiz­er will con­tin­ue to poke the rather liti­gious bear.

Like you’d want to see from a biosim­i­lar, PF-05280586’s tri­al met its pri­ma­ry end­point and showed equiv­a­lence in over­all re­sponse rate for pa­tients with CD20-pos­i­tive fol­lic­u­lar lym­phoma.

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