FDA Declines Approval for Two Chinese Cancer Drugs

This is the latest move in the FDA’s increasingly strict stance on approving drugs developed in Asian countries.

May 6, 2022

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According to a recent Reuters article, the FDA declined to approve two cancer treatments developed in China. The drugs in question are Hutchmed’s pancreatic cancer treatment and a throat cancer medicine developed by Junshi and Coherus. Single-country trials are responsible for the rejection of the former, while manufacturing issues held up the latter.

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