Industry Calls For Changes To Maximize Benefits Of Off-Patent Oncology Drugs

Medicines For Europe Calls for ‘Highest Quality Patent System In Europe’

Medicines for Europe has made a series of recommendations to improve the contribution of generics, biosimilars and value-added medicines to the European Commission’s “Beating Cancer Plan.” The association has offered a checklist of key policies to “ensure equity and quality of cancer care is achieved.”

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Medicines for Europe makes recommendations for better use of generics, biosimilars and value-added medicines in cancer care • Source: Shutterstock

“To increase access to cancer treatments across Europe, it is fundamental to make the best use of generic and biosimilar medicines,” Medicines for Europe has insisted in a new policy paper titled “Filling the gap: How off-patent medicines can improve the equity and quality of cancer care.”

Commenting on the launch of Medicines for Europe’s policy paper, the association’s president Christoph Stoller, who is also Teva’s general manager for Germany and Austria, said “cancer is one of the most burdensome health challenges of our time

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