Otsuka is a Japanese pharmaceutical group whose oncology portfolio centres on haematology: intravenous busulfan (Busulfex) and decitabine (Dacogen).
Otsuka Pharmaceutical, part of Otsuka Holdings, is best known for CNS medicines but markets Busulfex (busulfan) for transplant conditioning and Dacogen (decitabine) for myelodysplastic syndromes in the US, and Dacogen for elderly acute myeloid leukaemia in Europe through Janssen. It also develops Lonsurf outside Japan with Taiho, a group company.
Busulfan is one of the oldest cancer drugs. As a tablet it controlled chronic myeloid leukaemia before imatinib; as an infusion it is used to clear the bone marrow before a stem cell transplant.
Decitabine (Dacogen) is an infusion that loosens the chemical silencing of genes in myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukaemia, helping the bone marrow work again. An oral version combined with cedazuridine has its own record.
An oral chemotherapy pill for bowel cancer that has stopped responding to everything else; with bevacizumab it extends life by about three months.
Shares Decitabine, Myelodysplastic syndromes / neoplasms (MDS), Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Taiho Pharmaceutical (Otsuka), Trifluridine/tipiracil.
Shares Decitabine, Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Busulfan, Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Decitabine, Myelodysplastic syndromes / neoplasms (MDS), Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Taiho Pharmaceutical (Otsuka), Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Busulfan, Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Decitabine, Acute myeloid leukaemia.