Pfizer's Avastin biosimilar gets US approval

28 June 2019

Another biosimilar of one of the world’s best-selling oncology drugs, Avastin (bevacizumab), has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Pfizer’s (NYSE: PFE) Zirabev (bevacizumab-bvzr), a copy of Roche’s (ROG: SIX) original biologic, received approval for the treatment of five types of cancer: metastatic colorectal cancer; unresectable, locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer; recurrent glioblastoma; metastatic renal cell carcinoma; and persistent, recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer.

The first Avastin biosmilar, Mvasi (bevacizumab-awwb), from Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN) and Allergan (NYSE: AGN), was approved by the FDA in September 2017, but it has still not been launched.

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