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Drug Pricing Rules to Be Applied to Oncolytic Virus Delytact: Chuikyo
Japan’s all-important reimbursement policy panel on June 23 agreed to apply drug pricing rules for Daiichi Sankyo’s Delytact (G47∆; teserpaturev), the world’s first-ever oncolytic virus approved for the treatment of malignant glioma. Delytact was granted conditional, time-limited approval on June…
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