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NICE does not recommend AbbVie’s leukaemia drug
16 February 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Digital Editor
The incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) for venetoclax compared with best supportive care were higher than the normally range...
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Pfizer’s breast cancer drug too expensive for NHS
3 February 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Digital Editor
NICE has today published draft guidance which does not recommend Pfizer's breast cancer drug palbociclib for routine funding on the NHS...
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NICE approves former CDF kidney cancer drug for NHS use
12 January 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Digital Editor
Everolimus (Afinitor, Novartis) is now recommended to be available on the NHS as a treatment option for some patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma...
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NICE says Roche’s trastuzumab emtansine too expensive for routine NHS use
29 December 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
Trastuzumab emtansine is currently being funded through the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF). NICE is looking again at its 2015 guidance to see whether it should...
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NICE and FDA team up for technology collaboration
20 December 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will team up, using technology to...
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Price drop and new data means NICE recommends lung cancer drug pembrolizumab
5 December 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
In earlier draft guidance, NICE’s appraisal committee had not recommended pembrolizumab as there were uncertainties about its long term benefits...
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NICE recommends first-in-class severe asthma treatment
5 December 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
Mepolizumab is the first biologic treatment to target specific white blood cells called eosinophils, which are responsible for symptoms of severe asthma...
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Price drop means leukaemia CDF drug will be routinely available
2 December 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
Ibrutinib had only previously been available through the CDF. Following a reduction in its price for the NHS, it is now recommended in further guidance...
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NICE recommends faecal immunochemical tests for colorectal cancer
21 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
FITs are considered to be accurate because unlike other tests, they use immunochemical detection methods that are specific to human haemoglobin...
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Price discount helps give green light for Roche’s breast cancer drug
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...
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NICE approves three quarters of CDF drugs for routine NHS use
17 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
More than 75% of treatments in the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) which have been reappraised by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have received positive recommendations for routine use in the NHS. NICE has been reappraising cancer drugs which had not been recommended in previous NICE guidance…
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Coeliac UK ‘welcomes’ NICE’s coeliac guidance – but is it too little, too late?
14 November 2016 | By Norma McGough, Director of Policy, Research & Campaigns, Coeliac UK
Coeliac UK’s Director of Policy, Research & Campaigns, Norma McGough, welcomes NICE’s new quality standards on coeliac disease, which she believes will bring clarity and improvement to diagnosis screening and better access to long term treatment…
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NICE draft guidance recommends treatments for breast and lung cancer
10 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
NICE recommends 2 cancer drugs for routine use on the NHS as part of its programme to appraise treatments that were available on the Cancer Drugs Fund...
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NICE says head and neck cancer drug cetuximab is not cost-effective
7 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
NICE was reconsidering cetuximab as part of its programme to appraise drugs that are currently available on the Cancer Drugs Fund...
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Life-extending breast cancer drug approved by NICE
3 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
NICE has said eribulin, which is also called Halaven and made by Eisai, should be an option for people with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer...
