ImClone Systems, which recently agreed to a $6.5 billion takeover from Eli Lilly (Marketletter October 13), has launched Erbitux (cetuximab) in Canada for metastatic colorectal cancer.
US drug major Bristol-Myers Squibb helps market the drug in North America as part of a development alliance and is making the product commercially available through its wholly-owned subsidiary Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada.
The drug is approved by Health Canada for use in combination with irinotecan in the treatment of patients with epidermal growth factor receptor-expressing mCRC who are refractory to other irinotecan-based chemotherapy, and as single agent therapy for patients who are intolerant to irinotecan-based chemotherapy.
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