CANbridge Receives China FDA Approval for Oral Mucositis Therapy

CANbridge Life Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing Western drug candidates in China and North Asia, announced that it received an Import Medical Device Market Approval from the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) for CAN002 as a cancer adjuvant therapy, on April 2, 2018. CAN002, marketed as Caphosol in 47 countries, is an oral rinse for the treatment of oral mucositis, the inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membranes lining the mouth that occurs frequently in cancer patients undergoing high-dose chemotherapy, radiation and hematopoietic stem cell transplants.