By Joe Hoppe

 

Hutchmed (China) Ltd. said Friday that its pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor treatment, surufatinib, has been granted approval for drug registration by the National Medical Products Administration of China.

The biopharmaceutical company said that surufatinib was previously approved by China for the treatment of nonpancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in December. The drug is marketed under the brand name Sulanda in China.

Shares at 1525 GMT were up 31.0 pence, or 8.0%, at 417.0 pence.

 

Write to Joe Hoppe at joseph.hoppe@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

June 18, 2021 11:49 ET (15:49 GMT)

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