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Organization and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Details) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 27, 2019 segment product
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Number of products that entered in the commercial marketplace | 4
Number of business segments | segment | 1
Products Derived from Cabozantinib |
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Number of products that entered in the commercial marketplace | 2
Resulting from Discovery Efforts |
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Number of products that entered in the commercial marketplace | 2

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- Definition Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues. + References No definition available. + Details
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