{"id":85416,"date":"2019-12-20T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T10:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12475"},"modified":"2019-12-20T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T10:06:31","slug":"who-launches-first-biosimilar-medicine-to-treat-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-launches-first-biosimilar-medicine-to-treat-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO launches first biosimilar medicine to treat Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The<strong> <\/strong>World Health Organization(WHO) has launched its first biosimilar medicine to treat breast cancer named Trastuzumab.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Trastuzumab:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Trastuzumab drug was included in the WHO Essential Medicines List in 2015 as an essential treatment for about 20% of breast cancers.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It has shown high efficacy in curing early stage breast cancer and in some cases more advanced forms of the disease.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Biosimilar medicines:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Biosimilars are replicas of biologic drugs(original drugs) that are used to treat different types of cancers and autoimmune diseases.<\/li><li>Biosimilar medicines are made from living organisms through highly complex manufacturing processes and must be handled and administered under carefully monitored conditions.<\/li><li>They are officially approved versions of original products and can be manufactured when the original product\u2019s patent expires.Reference to the innovator product is an integral component of the approval.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Difference between Biosimilar and Generic medicines:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Biosimilars involve developing equivalent of biological entity while generics involve developing equivalent of a chemical entity-the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient.<\/li><li>Generic medicines are synthesized from chemicals in a consistent process so that manufacturers can be sure that each pill has the same effect every time.<\/li><li>On the other hand,Biosimilar medicines are produced from living organisms through highly complex manufacturing processes.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The World Health Organization(WHO) has launched its first biosimilar medicine to treat breast cancer named Trastuzumab. Facts: About Trastuzumab: Trastuzumab drug was included in the WHO Essential Medicines List in 2015 as an essential treatment for about 20% of breast cancers.&nbsp; It has shown high efficacy in curing early stage breast cancer and in some&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-launches-first-biosimilar-medicine-to-treat-breast-cancer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO launches first biosimilar medicine to treat Breast Cancer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2764,2765,1089],"class_list":["post-85416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-biosimilar-medicine","tag-breast-cancer","tag-who","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702606804},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}