The Highest Standard of Specialized Disease Therapy Management
Continually innovating, BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy evaluates every therapy for specific chronic diseases and builds care plans for those therapies. Every patient has an adjusted care plan to meet their specific needs.
Specialty Pharmacy was instituted as a means of focusing care on those patients who are dealing with chronic diseases. As more and more biologics were approved, many more pharmacies and even insurance companies began using the term "Specialty Pharmacy" to describe their services.
Biotech medications are taking over as best in class treatment options. However, with these treatments come challenges.
Biotech medications often have side effects that require managing.
These medications are often expensive and require authorizations through health care plans.
Doses can not be missed. Missing a dose can extend treatment time.
Due to the cost of these medications, most pharmacies do not have them readily available.
The diseases that these medications treat are chronic. Patients need a medication specialist to work with them in conjunction with their doctors office to achieve successful treatment outcomes.
Our patients receive the care and support they need to allow them to focus on their treatment.
FDA approves expanded use of breast cancer drug 2/4/2010
PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 1) The Food and Drug Administration has given an additional approval to a breast cancer drug made by GlaxoSmithKline, GSK announced Friday.
The FDA approved Tykerb (lapatinib) combined with Novartis Femara (letrozole) as an all-oral, first-line treatment for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer that overexpresses the HER2 protein. HER2 is involved in normal cell growth, but can contribute to cancer when found on cancer cells, and between 25% and 30% of breast cancers overexpress the protein; 60% to 70% of breast cancer cases in the United States and Europe are hormone receptor-positive.
This combination...
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