Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has announced that one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries presented data analyses for two of its specialty medicines – ODOMZO® (sonidegib) and LEVULAN® KERASTICK® (aminolevulinic acid HCl) + BLU-U ® – from its dermatology portfolio, providing insights to healthcare providers treating patients who have or are at risk for different types of skin cancer.

These data analyses were presented at the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Virtual Meeting Experience 2020, June 12-June 14

ODOMZO, a hedgehog inhibitor, is used to treat adults with locally advanced basal cell carcinoma (laBCC) that has returned following surgery or radiation or that cannot be treated with surgery or radiation.

Long-term analyses of the BOLT study confirmed that treatment with ODOMZO provided clinically meaningful outcomes to patients with laBCC who were taking common concomitant medicines, such as medicines for cardiovascular, inflammatory and auto-immune diseases. The safety profile for ODOMZO in these patients who were an average age of 67 years old was manageable and consistent with overall findings from the BOLT study. 

LEVULAN KERASTICK for topical solution, 20%, plus blue light illumination using the BLU-U Blue Light Photodynamic Therapy Illuminator is used to treat minimally to moderately thick actinic keratoses of the face, scalp or upper extremities, which the Skin Cancer Foundation classifies as precancerous skin growths that if left untreated may turn into squamous cell carcinoma. While only about 10% of actinic keratoses become cancerous, the majority of squamous cell carcinoma cases start as actinic keratoses.