NICE does not recommend tucatinib in new draft guidance
The UK regulator concluded that breast cancer patients taking tucatinib live longer, but it is unclear how long for and whether it is cost effective.
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The UK regulator concluded that breast cancer patients taking tucatinib live longer, but it is unclear how long for and whether it is cost effective.
Seagen's Tukysa® (tucatinib) was approved in the UK as part of a combination regimen for the treatment of adults with locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.
The EMA has announced the results of its pharmacovigilance meeting for March, saying that it has started a review of medicines containing ifosfamide due to a higher risk of encephalopathy.
ICH M9 biopharmaceutics classification system-based biowaivers1 is currently at step 2b and feedback from interested parties is being evaluated.2 This guideline should reach the implementation stage (step 4) during 2020. However, industry still has concerns relating to several key areas of the guidance. Here, Dave Elder summarises these ICH M9…