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OSLO, Norway, Sept. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Photocure ASA (OSE: PHO), the Bladder Cancer Company, announces that it entered into an agreement with Equity Pharmaceuticals PTY Limited, part of the Clinigen group, in September, to initiate a Named Patient Program (NPP) enabling bladder cancer patients in South Africa to receive blue light cystoscopy (BLC®) with Hexvix®.
Named Patient Programs (NPPs) provide access to medicines in response to requests by physicians on behalf of specific, or 'named,' patients when those medicines are not licensed or available in the patients' home country. Photocure's NPP with Equity Pharmaceuticals is designed to ensure that physicians can request Hexvix on behalf of individual patients residing in South Africa, with suspected or recurring bladder tumors. Hexvix blue light cystoscopy is indicated as adjunct to standard white light cystoscopy to contribute to the diagnosis and management of bladder cancer in patients with known or high suspicion of bladder cancer.Equity Pharmaceuticals will administer the NPP, and product sales are anticipated to begin in Q4 2024.
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