VIDEO: OK to switch patients with IBD from biologic to biosimilar ‘at any given time’

In this Healio video exclusive, Michael V. Chiorean, MD, explains that physicians can safely and “with confidence” switch patients with inflammatory bowel disease from an originator biologic to a biosimilar at any point during treatment.
“We can now say with confidence, while certainly this isn’t necessarily the way most of us practice, that you can switch to a biosimilar at any given time, during induction and/or maintenance and unrelated to the disease activity at the time of switching,” Chiorean, co-director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Swedish

In this Healio video exclusive, Michael V. Chiorean, MD, explains that physicians can safely and “with confidence” switch patients with inflammatory bowel disease from an originator biologic to a biosimilar at any point during treatment.
“We can now say with confidence, while certainly this isn’t necessarily the way most of us practice, that you can switch to a biosimilar at any given time, during induction and/or maintenance and unrelated to the disease activity at the time of switching,” Chiorean, co-director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Swedish