UDENYCA® provides the established outcomes you expect for your patients

UDENYCA® was confirmed to be highly similar to Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim), with no clinically meaningful differences.1,2

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Approval based on extensive data analysis and stringent FDA requirements3

Clinical studies with UDENYCA® were conducted in healthy subjects, the most sensitive and informative population in which to assess biosimilarity.4

  • A study in healthy subjects is likely to produce less pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) variability compared with a study in patients with potential confounding factors such as underlying and/or concomitant disease and concomitant medications such as myelosuppressive chemotherapy
  • Healthy subjects are fully immunocompetent and can mount an immune antidrug antibody (ADA) response
  • Lack of confounding factors in healthy subjects allows for better evaluation of treatment-related adverse events (AEs) that are specific to pegfilgrastim

Clinical studies in cancer patients to confirm biosimilarity of UDENYCA® to Neulasta® were not required by the FDA.

Establishing biosimilarity for UDENYCA®

The FDA recommends a stepwise approach
for biosimilar development3,4

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development
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  • The stepwise approach for biosimilars is different from the developmental model used for reference products, in which clinical trial data in the intended patient population provide the basis for approval3
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  • In the biosimilar development paradigm, the analytical assessment forms the foundation of the totality of evidence, and the nonclinical data, together with pharmacokinetics/ pharmacodynamics (PK/PD), immunogenicity, and safety data, support the demonstration of biosimilarity3

UDENYCA® is dosed and administered identically to Neulasta® PFS.1,2

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References: 1. UDENYCA® (pegfilgrastim-cbqv) Prescribing Information. Redwood City, CA: Coherus BioSciences, Inc.; 2023. 2. Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim) Prescribing Information. Thousand Oaks, CA: Amgen Inc.; 2021. 3. Scientific considerations in demonstrating biosimilarity to a reference product: guidance for industry. US Food and Drug Administration. Published April 2015. Updated April 24, 2020. Accessed April 27, 2023. https://www.fda.gov/media/82647/download. 4. Clinical pharmacology data to support a demonstration of biosimilarity to a reference product: guidance for industry. US Food and Drug Administration. Published December 2016. Accessed April 27, 2023. https://www.fda.gov/media/88622/download.