Japan adds 13 NCEs to NHI drug price list, including Sutent, Humira and Exjade

15 June 2008

Among the 13 New Chemical Entities/23 products added to Japan's National Health Insurance drug price list effective June 13, were world pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's Sutent (sunitinib) for imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumor and renal cell cancer, US health care major Abbott Laboratories' Humira (adalimumab) for rheumatoid arthritis and Swiss drug major Novartis' Exjade (deferasirox) for hyperferremia.

The price of Sutent 12.5mg capsules for the treatment of imatinib-resistant GIST, and inoperative or metastatic RCC was set at 8,546.30 yen ($81.74) and a 5% premium for usefulness was granted. Sales of the drug are expected to reach 2.11 billion yen in the first year on the market and 14.09 billion yen at peak in the 10th.

Humira subcutaneous 40mg syringe 0.8ml, for use when existing therapy had failed, was set at 71,097 yen. Revenues from the antibody drug, which inhibitsTNF-alpha activity, are forecast to reach 2.33 billion yen in the first year and 38.89 billion yen at peak in the eighth.

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