Russia faces shortage of anticancer drug Ixempra

27 January 2024
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Russia has faced a shortage of another important anticancer drug - Ixempra (ixabepilone), which is designed for the treatment of breast cancer, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent.

Over the past two years, the drug's right holder - the American subsidiary of the Russian drugmaker R-Pharm - has launched only one series of the drug into the Russian market. The company explains that due to a change in the distributor of the active ingredient, the drug has become more expensive. In this regard, R-Pharm hopes for an increase of the maximum price of the drug in order to resume supplies.

R-Pharm US acquired  rights to the drug from US pharma major Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) in 2015. There are no analogues of Ixempra in Russia.

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