Following the approval of Toripalimab by the Food and Drug Administration, two more Chinese-made cancer drugs have received approval for distribution in the US.

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    11 months ago

    How do they choose the names of these drugs? Do they just keep stringing together consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel until they hit some sort of limit?

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      Some of it may just be random. But there’s some logic to parts of it. I. This case the suffix -mab indicates that this drug is a monoclonal antibody.

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      11 months ago

      Yes, but they don’t pick them randomly. Those are usually sillables from the chemical or biological description.

      Classical Example: para-Acetylaminophenol… the common generic names are paracetamol or acetaminophen, the most common brand name in the US is Tylenol. All are derived from picking some parts of the descriptor.