Bentley Pharmaceuticals (BNT) Receives Spanish Approval for Generic Casodex
Bentley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: BNT) announced that its subsidiaries, Laboratorios Belmac and Laboratorios Davur, have received product approvals of bicalutamide from the Spanish Ministry of Health.
Bicalutamide is the generic equivalent to AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals' (NYSE: AZN) Casodex. Bicalutamide is prescribed as a treatment to prevent the growth of prostate cancer by blocking the effects of androgens on the cancer cells. The treatment is a non-steroidal, anti-androgenic product orally administered as a 50 mg. tablet.
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