Indian Avastin Biosimilar Arrives Amid Roche's Charges

Reliance Life Sciences has introduced its biosimilar version of Roche's anticancer, Avastin (bevacizumab), on the Indian market but the Swiss multinational has claimed it is unconvinced of the rigor involved in the regulatory scrutiny of the product.

Cancer cell

Reliance Life Sciences' president and CEO, K V Subramaniam, has told Scrip that the company's biosimilar bevacizumab, marketed as BevaciRel, has been approved for metastatic colorectal cancer and cannot be used off-label in ophthalmology.

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