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Article: Abraxis Bioscience Announces Filing of Marketing Application in Japan for ABRAXANE in the Treatment of Breast Cancer.
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- March 17, 2008
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LOS ANGELES -- Abraxis BioScience, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABII), a fully integrated biotechnology company, today announced that its partner, Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., has filed a Japanese New Drug Application (J-NDA) with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan to market ABRAXANE([R]) for Injectable Suspension (paclitaxel protein-bound particles for injectable suspension) (albumin-bound) for the treatment of breast cancer. ABRAXANE is the first and only approved protein-bound nanometer-sized solvent-free taxane and is the first commercial product to validate Abraxis' proprietary nab[TM] technology platform.
"The J-NDA application is an important milestone ...