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Brand-name prescription medicine

Cancidas

Generic name: Caspofungin acetate

FDA application holder: Merck

Strengths and generic versions

Official data, not advice

Everything here comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): the NDC Directory, Drugs@FDA, the official labels and recall reports; pharmacy costs come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Each fact shows its source and date.

This page is not medical advice. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before you start, stop or switch any medicine, including a switch between a brand and a generic.

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At a glance

2Strengths and forms
12Same medicine, other names
2001FDA approval
0Recalls (FDA reports)

Quick answers

What is Cancidas?
Cancidas is a brand name of Caspofungin acetate, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 2 Cancidas products in 2 strengths and forms.
Who makes Cancidas?
Merck holds the FDA application for Cancidas (NDA021227, approved January 26, 2001).
Is there a generic or store brand of Cancidas?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 12 other products with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Cancidas product, 10 of them generic. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
Has Cancidas been recalled?
No recall linked to Cancidas products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Cancidas is

Each Cancidas product as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, by active ingredient, strength and form, with its official label. “Same medicine, other names” counts the other products with exactly the same active ingredients, strength and form (generic versions, store brands and other brands); inactive ingredients can differ.

Caspofungin acetate · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
caspofungin acetate 5 mg/mL
injection, powder, lyophilized, for solution (intravenous)		 Cancidas 6 products, 6 companies —
caspofungin acetate 7 mg/mL
injection, powder, lyophilized, for solution (intravenous)		 Cancidas 6 products, 6 companies —

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Caspofungin acetate →

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Cancidas products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA021227MerckJanuary 26, 20012

Companies that list Cancidas

The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Cancidas products.

Recalls

No recall linked to Cancidas products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports.

Sources

  1. NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  2. Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  3. Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  4. Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  5. NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026 — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov, list of November 4, 2026, retrieved November 7, 2026

Which names get a brand page: a name the NDC Directory lists for a medicine, held by one company (the FDA application holder, or the company named on most of its products), that is not just a description, and that is not the only product of its medicine.

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