{"id":18568,"date":"2017-12-02T18:13:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T12:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=18568"},"modified":"2018-06-27T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:30:01","slug":"biosimilar-drug-ogviri-approved-fda-breast-stomach-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=18568","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Biosimilar&#8217; drug Ogviri approved by FDA for breast and stomach cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For the treatment of certain breast and stomach cancers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Ogiviri (<\/span>tastuzumab<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211;<\/span>dkst<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">), which is the nation&#8217;s first biosimilar drug. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">FDA said that the newly designed biosimilar are derivative of living organisms and similar to those drugs that had been approved earlier. Moreover, it was found that there is no significant difference between their potency, safety, and purity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It was reported that Ogviri is approved to treat breast or stomach cancers that are associated with HER2+ gene. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">FDA Commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb said, &#8220;The FDA continues to grow the number of biosimilar approvals, helping to promote competition that can lower health care costs\u201d. He further added that it is very important to introduce such drugs when the concern is cancer, whose treatment is <\/span>high costly<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> and can&#8217;t be afforded by many.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Certain side effects are expected and <\/span>reported like headache<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, chills, fever, diarrhea, nausea, infection, cough, etc. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Like Herceptin, Ogviri box is labeled with a warning stating the risk of heart diseases, serious allergic reactions, lung damage and damage to developing <\/span>fetus<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: drugs.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the treatment of certain breast and stomach cancers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Ogiviri (tastuzumab&#8211;dkst), which is the nation&#8217;s first biosimilar drug. FDA said that the newly designed biosimilar are derivative of living organisms and similar to those drugs that had been approved earlier. Moreover, it was found that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":31111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12660],"tags":[21370,21371],"class_list":["post-18568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-health-news","tag-cancer-news","tag-fda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}