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Pharmstandard Sales Up 84%

Drug maker Pharmstandard said Thursday its third-quarter sales soared 84 percent, year-on-year, boosted by an early state tender for anti-cancer drugs.

Sales totaled 14.7 billion rubles, versus 8 billion rubles in the same period last year, the company said in a statement.

It said sales of Johnson & Johnson's anti-cancer drug Velcade totaled 4.8 billion rubles, accounting for one-third of total revenue, after the government shifted its tender to the third quarter from the fourth quarter.

As a result, total sales of third-party products soared 308 percent to stand at 8.1 billion rubles, while sales of the company's own drugs were up 8.3 percent to 6.2 billion rubles.

(Reuters)

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