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Collaboration Agreements (Collaboration Revenues - Genentech) (Details) - Genentech [Member] - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2017	Mar. 31, 2016
Selling, general and administrative expense [Member]
Collaborative Arrangements and Non-collaborative Arrangement Transactions [Line Items]
U.S. losses included in Selling, general and administrative expenses	$ (626)	$ (7,293)
COTELLIC [Member]
Collaborative Arrangements and Non-collaborative Arrangement Transactions [Line Items]
Royalty revenues on ex-U.S. sales of COTELLIC included in Collaboration revenues	$ 2,298	$ 130

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 225
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.1(e))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=63488584&loc=d3e20235-122688

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