Generic Somatostatin Analogues for Neuroendocrine Cancer
Updated 25th September 2026What are generic drugs? Primer Companies take out exclusive rights called patents on each new drug they discover. If a company has a patent on a drug, only that company can market it under their brand name once it's been granted a licence. Once the patent expires, other manufacturers can market generic versions. The generic versions will be the same as the branded medicine because they contain the same active ingredients. Many medicines have at least 2 different names: the brand name – created by the pharmaceutical company that made the medicine the generic name – the name of…