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The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has made a final decision to turn down Perjeta (pertuzumab) for routine NHS funding for first line use in women whose HER2-positive breast cancer has returned to the breast but is inoperable, or where it has spread to other parts of the body.
1 March 2017 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
This page will be updated as the results from the Cancer Drugs Fund appraisal are announced by The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
21 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
A discount to the price of pertuzumab agreed with the company was an important factor in enabling NICE to overturn its earlier provisional decision...
20 May 2016 | By Katie Sadler
NICE has announced it will not be recommending pertuzumab to treat HER2-positive breast cancer because it is uncertain of the long term benefits for patients.
7 March 2016 | By Victoria White
The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has accepted three new medicines for routine use in NHS Scotland.
31 July 2015 | By Victoria White
The EC has approved the use of Perjeta in combination with Herceptin and chemotherapy for use before surgery in patients with early stage breast cancer...
29 June 2015 | By Victoria White
The CHMP has recommended that the EC approves the use of Perjeta for the neoadjuvant treatment of adult patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer...
1 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Roche has announced new results from the Phase II NeoSphere study that assessed a Perjeta regimen in people with HER2-positive early breast cancer...
13 January 2015 | By Porter Novelli Limited
Roche welcomes the announcement from NHS England that patients can continue to access our breast cancer medicines Perjeta, Kadcyla and Avastin via the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), but is extremely disappointed that patients with advanced bowel and ovarian cancer will now be denied Avastin on the NHS, following their review…
19 December 2014 | By Roche
Roche announced top-line results of the Phase III MARIANNE study...
30 September 2014 | By Roche
Roche announced final survival results from the Phase III CLEOPATRA study, which showed that adding Perjeta (pertuzumab) to Herceptin (trastuzumab) and docetaxel chemotherapy extended the lives of people with previously untreated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer...
17 September 2014 | By Roche
Roche announced that important new data from its established and pipeline medicine portfolio will be presented during the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2014 Congress from 26-30 September in Madrid, Spain...
2 July 2013 | By Roche
The U.S. FDA has accepted the company’s sBLA for the use of a Perjeta®...
5 March 2013 | By Roche
Roche announced that the EMA has approved PERJETA (pertuzumab) for patients with previously untreated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (mBC)...
14 December 2012 | By Roche
Positive opinion for the use of Perjeta (pertuzumab)...
