Study Offers Support For Biosimilar-To-Biosimilar Switching

Practice Is Safe And Effective, But Not Covered By Current Regulations Or Guidance

A new paper has examined the issue of biosimilar-to-biosimilar switching, concluding that it is a safe and effective clinical practice but highlighting a lack of current health authority regulations or guidance on the subject.

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Biosimilar-to-biosimilar switching is examined in a new paper • Source: Shutterstock

Biosimilar-to-biosimilar switching – moving patients between two different biosimilar versions of the same brand biologic – is “a safe and effective clinical practice,” a new paper published in BioDrugs has concluded, based on a review of biosimilar-to-biosimilar switching studies.

However, the paper points out that the practice “is not covered by current health authority regulations or guidance” anywhere in...

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