Russia: Innovative cancer drugs on new essential list
13/10/2011
Russia's proposed list of "vital and essential" drugs for 2012 includes a number of innovative cancer treatments.
Among the 536 products on the draft list, which has been published by the Ministry of Health and Social Development, are 24 new therapeutic agents which appear for the first time.
94 products on the list, or 16.7% of the total, are manufactured by Russian firms, 35.9% are produced by overseas drugmakers and 47.4% are produced by both domestic and foreign firms.