FDA Approves Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited’s Generic Version of Roche’s Xeloda

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it approved Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd’s generic version of Roche Holding AG’s cancer drug Xeloda. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, a unit of the generic drugmaker, will market 150 and 500 milligram doses of the oral drug, named capecitabine. The drug, like Xeloda, will have a boxed warning about an increased risk of bleeding in patients who are on blood thinners .

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