Lantheus builds medical imaging and treatment tools, and supporters think a refreshed Pylarify product plus a bigger push into brain and cancer testing could open new demand as populations age. But the story hinges on one main product, and tougher pricing rules, new rivals, or shifting hospital buying habits could quickly squeeze growth.Read more
Lantheus sells imaging drugs used to spot heart disease and cancer, but tougher price competition in one of its biggest areas could squeeze profits and make sales less predictable. The company is trying to widen its product mix through new launches and deals, yet slow approvals, tricky insurance payment rules, and integration costs may limit how much that diversification helps.Read more
Lantheus is trying to broaden beyond its flagship prostate cancer scan as new brain-imaging uses and several upcoming launches aim to open fresh growth paths. The catch is that tougher competition and reimbursement changes could squeeze pricing and expose how much the business still leans on one product.Read more
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Lantheus Holdings, Inc. develops, manufactures, and commercializes diagnostic and therapeutic products that assist clinicians in diagnosis and treatment of heart, cancer, and other diseases worldwide. The company offers DEFINITY, an injectable ultrasound enhancing agent used in echocardiography exams; TechneLite, a technetium generator for nuclear medicine procedures; Xenon-133, a radiopharmaceutical gas to assess pulmonary function; Neurolite, an injectable imaging agent to identify the area within the brain where blood flow has been blocked or reduced due to stroke; Cardiolite, an injectable Tc-99m-labeled imaging agent to assess blood flow to the muscle of the heart; and PYLARIFY, an F 18-labelled PSMA-targeted PET imaging agent used for imaging of PSMA positive-lesions in men with prostate cancer. It also provides Automated Bone Scan Index that calculates the disease burden of prostate cancer by detecting and classifying bone scan tracer uptakes as metastatic or benign lesions using an artificial neural network; RELISTOR for opioid-induced constipation; and aPROMISE, an artificial intelligence medical device software; PYLARIFY AI, an medical device software to perform quantitative assessment of PSMA PET/CT images in prostate cancer; and flurpiridaz used to assess blood flow to the heart. In addition, it develops PNT2002, a radiopharmaceutical therapy to treat mCRPC; PNT2003, an SSTR therapy to patients with SSTR-positive neuroendocrine tumors; MK-6240, a F 18-labeled PET imaging agent for Tau tangles in Alzheimer’s disease; LNTH-2401, a novel radiodiagnostic targeting the gastrin-releasing peptide receptor; LNTH-2402; LNTH-2403; LNTH-2404; LNTH-250; LNTH-2515; and LNTH-1363S, an fibroblast activation protein, alpha, copper-64 labeled PET imaging agent. It has collaboration agreements with GE Healthcare; Curium Pharma; POINT; Regeneron; and Ratio Therapeutics LLC. The company was founded in 1956 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts.
