Guidance
Evidence-based recommendations on olaratumab (Lartruvo) plus doxorubicin for advanced soft tissue sarcoma in adults.
Guidance development process
How we develop NICE technology appraisal guidance
Next review: The guidance will be updated when the data collection period has ended (expected to be December 2020). Olaratumab will continue to be available through the Cancer Drugs Fund while the guidance is being updated, as part of the managed access agreement.
Your responsibility
The recommendations in this guidance represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. When exercising their judgement, health professionals are expected to take this guidance fully into account, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients. The application of the recommendations in this guidance is at the discretion of health professionals and their individual patients and do not override the responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or their carer or guardian.
Commissioners and/or providers have a responsibility to provide the funding required to enable the guidance to be applied when individual health professionals and their patients wish to use it, in accordance with the NHS Constitution. They should do so in light of their duties to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, to advance equality of opportunity and to reduce health inequalities.
Commissioners and providers have a responsibility to promote an environmentally sustainable health and care system and should assess and reduce the environmental impact of implementing NICE recommendations wherever possible.