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Nippon Kayaku has been producing and selling cancer-related pharmaceuticals such as anti-cancer drugs, including bleomycin, drugs used to ease pain caused by cancers and generic drugs, which have been widely discussed recently as its main products. We have also been producing and selling drugs used for therapies besides cancers. Moreover, we have emphasized the development of new pharmaceuticals using our latest technologies.

It is important that highly reliable information concerning anti-cancer drugs be provided to medical institutions. Nippon Kayaku maintains a staff of more than 400 MRs (medical representatives), of whom approximate 100 are cancer specialist MRs.

Nippon Kayaku has also established the Pharmaceutical Information Center to respond to inquiries from medical professionals as well as from patients and their families; these inquiries mainly concern Nippon Kayaku pharmaceuticals that have been dispensed at medical institutes and by insurance pharmacies.

Introduction of Main Products

Anti-cancer drugs and cancer-related drugs

Anti-cancer drugs

The history of Nippon Kayaku anti-cancer drugs began with the marketing of BLEOMYCIN in 1969.
Since then, Nippon Kayaku has continued with research and development of remedies to improve cancer treatments. At present, Nippon Kayaku sells 24 products of anti-cancer drugs belonging to 22 types, including generic drugs.
These anti-cancer drugs can be used to treat cancers of a variety of organs such as the stomach, intestine, lungs, liver, prostate, and breast, etc. Almost all cancer sites can be covered by anti-cancer drugs.

Cancer-related drugs

Nippon Kayaku has also been developing and selling cancer-related drugs that are used for cancer therapies. As a typical cancer-related drug, a pain relief drug is used to ease pain caused by metastatic bone cancer.

Other pharmaceuticals

Nippon Kayaku has also been developing and selling pharmaceuticals other than cancer-related drugs, such as pharmaceuticals for circulatory organs.

Generic drugs*

Nippon Kayaku has also been developing generic drugs. Since many cancer-related drugs, such as anti-cancer drugs and antemetics, are included in these generic drugs, our lineup of cancer-related drugs is extremely significant.

*Generic drugs are drugs that were developed after the terms of patents of the originally developed drugs had expired, and that their ingredients, usages, dosages, potencies, and effects are the same as those of the original drugs.