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Use of Roche's Herceptin Among HER2+ Gastric Cancer Patients May Double in China Over the Next Three Years
Date:12/11/2013

BURLINGTON, Mass., Dec. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that oncologists in China are embracing Roche's Herceptin as the targeted therapy for treating HER2+ gastric cancer in the first-line setting. The outlook for the use of Herceptin in this patient subpopulation is promising, and oncologists expect that the proportion of HER2+ gastric cancer patients treated with Herceptin could double by 2016.

Decision Resources' new special report entitled Gastric Cancer in China: Physician and Payer Perspectives on Optimizing Market Access for Premium-Priced Treatment also finds that substantial barriers currently exist for gastric cancer patients to access Herceptin in China, primarily due to lack of reimbursement and the high out-of-pocket expenses. Roche's innovations in breaking the market access barriers through patient access programs and collaboration with private insurance companies to provide coverage for expensive targeted therapies are starting to pay off. Herceptin (trastuzumab) has been included in the Provincial Reimbursement Drug List (PRDL) of Jiangsu Province recently, and the interviewed payers also support the inclusion of Herceptin in the next update of the National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL). These findings may signify a more widespread use of Herceptin in China and align with our survey finding that the use of Herceptin in HER2+ gastric cancer patients can almost double in the next three years.

A key threat to this growth will be the entry of locally manufactured non-innovator biologics, for example Cipterbin from Shanghai's CP Guojian Pharmaceuticals. The report finds that app
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