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What is medical interchangeability and how does it apply to Biosimilars?
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19/10/2023
Have you ever heard of the concept of 'interchangeability' in the medical field? We went to the European Medicines Agency to understand what it is and what it means for EU patients and health systems.
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Have you ever heard of the concept of interchangeability in the medical field?
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We went to the European Medicines Agency to understand what it is and what it means for
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EU patients and health systems.
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The EMA's Chief Medical Officer, Stefan Thurstrep, gave us some insights.
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It's a difficult word and interchangeability means that you can substitute or switch one
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product with another.
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And when we talk about interchangeability of biosimilars, we are talking about patients
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who are already being treated with the reference product, that they can be switched to a biosimilar
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version of that reference product, or that they even could be switched between different
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biosimilars with the same reference product.
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And ultimately also be started therapy on a biosimilar instead, so you don't have to
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go via the originated product.
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The big advantage is saving of money.
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There's no therapeutic advantage because these products are the same, they have the same
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efficacy and have the same safety.
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But there is the opportunity because they typically are at a lower price, so the healthcare
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system can save money or they can even maybe offer the therapy to more patients at the
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same cost.
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