NAPSR News:Roche posts strong sales growth in the first nine months of 2013

Group sales rose 6% to 34.9 billion Swiss francs in the first nine months of the year due to strong demand for Roche's HER2 breast-cancer treatments. Now is the time to enter this wonderful field of pharmaceutical sales.
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WASHINGTON - Oct. 21, 2013 - PRLog -- Group sales rose 6% to 34.9 billion Swiss francs in the first nine months of the year due to strong demand for Roche's HER2 breast-cancer treatments, as well as higher sales of Avastin and clinical laboratory products from the Diagnostics Division. For the fifth consecutive year Roche was ranked as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), highlighting the Group's commitment to responsible business practices and the creation of long-term value.

Commenting on the Group's first nine months, Roche CEO Severin Schwan said: "Demand for our products has remained strong in both divisions. We will meet our full-year targets. I am very encouraged by the uptake of our new cancer medicines, Perjeta and Kadcyla, which significantly improve the survival rates of patients with a very aggressive form of breast cancer. In diagnostics, we benefited from strong growth in Professional Diagnostics, and the launch of the cobas 8100 will further strengthen our market leadership."

Sales in the Pharmaceuticals Division rose 7% to 27.2 billion Swiss francs as a result of strong demand for Roche's cancer medicines Avastin, Herceptin, MabThera/Rituxan, Perjeta and Kadcyla, as well as rheumatoid arthritis treatment Actemra/RoActemra.

The HER2 breast-cancer franchise, which includes Herceptin, Perjeta and Kadcyla, grew 13% thanks to positive uptake of both Perjeta and Kadcyla following their recent launches. The outlook for the HER2 franchise was further strengthened in September after the European regulatory agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended approval for Kadcyla in advanced HER2-positive breast cancer. The FDA also granted accelerated approval of Perjeta for the neoadjuvant treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer prior to surgery. Perjeta is the only approved neoadjuvant breast cancer treatment in the United States. In addition, the subcutaneous formulation of Herceptin was approved in Europe, significantly reducing the administration time and related treatment costs of Herceptin.

Avastin sales rose 13% due to recent approvals in ovarian cancer in Europe, colorectal cancer in the United States and Europe, and the first approval for newly diagnosed glioblastoma in Japan.

The division also benefited from a 33% increase in sales for Actemra/RoActemra. Roche is strengthening its immunology/ophthalmology pipeline with the development of new compounds such as etrolizumab for inflammatory bowel disease and lampalizumab (anti-factor D) for geographic atrophy, an advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration. Etrolizumab is moving into late-stage development, while promising phase II data for lampalizumab were presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Retina Specialists in August.

The United States (+12%) and key emerging markets2 (+10%), in particular China, which grew 23%, were the main regional growth drivers. The United States nine-month net revenue benefited from a sales reserve release in the third quarter amounting to 184 million Swiss francs related to a provision in the US Healthcare Reform3. Sales in Europe rose 2% despite the challenging environment due to demand for specialty care medicines such as Avastin, skin cancer medicine Zelboraf and Actemra.

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The CNPR is a federally trademarked certification you can earn by demonstrating the necessary knowledge in pharmacology, medical terminology, physiology, and regulations for selling pharmaceuticals. The CNPR examination is dedicated to increasing the professional level of NAPSR members and to developing meaningful and ethical standards fully accepted by both its members and members of the pharmaceutical community.

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