Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jul 2019
FDA approves Pfizer's biosimilar Ruxience (rituximab-pvvr), for certain cancers and auto-immune conditions
23 July 2019 - Pfizer today announced the United States FDA has approved Ruxience (rituximab-pvvr), a biosimilar to Rituxan (rituximab), for the treatment of adult patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis.
The FDA approval was based on the review of a comprehensive data package, which demonstrated biosimilarity of Ruxience to the reference product. This includes results from the REFLECTIONS B3281006 clinical comparative study, which evaluated the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of Ruxience and found no clinically meaningful differences in safety or efficacy compared to the reference product in patients with CD20-positive, low tumour burden follicular lymphoma.
