Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops and commercializes oncology and hematology drug products. The company markets six drug products, including FUSILEV for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, rescue after high-dose methotrexate therapy in osteosarcoma, and to diminish the toxicity and counteract the effects of impaired methotrexate elimination and of inadvertent overdosage of folic acid antagonists; FOLOTYN, a folate analogue metabolic inhibitor to treat patients with relapsed or refractory PTCL; ZEVALIN injection for patients with follicular non-Hodgkins lymphoma; MARQIBO, a sphingomyelin/cholesterol liposome-encapsulated formulation of the anticancer drug vincristine for adult patients with Philadelphia chromosome-negative acute lymphoblastic leukemia; BELEODAQ injection for patients with relapsed or refractory PTCL; and EVOMELA for use as a conditioning treatment prior to autologous stem cell transplant in multiple myeloma patients. It is also developing POZIOTINIB for treating breast, gastric, colorectal, and lung cancers; EOQUIN for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer; and SPI-2012 for chemotherapy-induced neutropenia in patients with breast cancer. The company sells its drugs through a direct sales force in the United States; and through distributors in Europe. It has licensing and development agreement with Cell Therapeutics, Inc.; license agreement with Merck & Cie AG, Sloan-Kettering Institute, and Cydex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; development and commercialization collaboration agreement with Allergan, Inc.; collaboration agreement with Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd.; licensing and collaboration agreement with TopoTarget A/S; and co-development and commercialization agreement with Hanmi Pharmaceutical Company. The company was formerly known as NeoTherapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in December 2002. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada.
