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Bayer's Xofigo Gains NICE Approval
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has issued draft guidelines on using the drug in prostate cancer patients.
It is looking likely that patients with prostate cancer will, in certain circumstances, get ‘routine’ access to treatment with Bayer’s Xofigo (radium 223) on the National Health Service in England and Wales.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published draft guideline’s endorsing the drug as an option to treat adults with hormone-relapsed prostate cancer, symptomatic bone metastases and no known visceral metastases.
But this only extends to patients who have already been treated with docetaxel, and the recommendation is contingent upon on Bayer providing the drug with a confidential discount agreed in a patient access scheme.
Xofigo is a radio-pharmaceutical agent designed to directly deliver alpha radiation to bone metastases without affecting normal bone marrow. Bayer estimates the average cost for a six-month course with the drug (administered intravenously every four weeks) to be around £24,240.
Read the complete article on PharmaTimes: http://bit.ly/13tJUoI
Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman
December 19th 2023Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.
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Trastuzumab Deruxtecan Receives FDA Approval for HER2-Positive Solid Tumors
April 5th 2024FDA granted accelerated approval to trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for adult patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive solid tumors who received prior systemic treatment and have no satisfactory alternative treatment options.
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