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NICE recommends Piqray and Trodelvy, maintaining 100% approvals of breast cancer drugs since 2018
An agreement with the companies on the price of 2 breast cancer treatments, Piqray and Trodelvy, has paved the way for NICE to be able to make them available immediately to around 3,450 people on the NHS and maintaining NICE’s 100% approval rate of breast cancer drugs since 2018.
NICE recommends step-change targeted treatment for people with early breast cancer
Around 4,000 people are set to benefit from a step-change in treatment for early breast cancer following today’s (17 June 2022) provisional approval by NICE of abemaciclib in combination with hormone therapy as an option after surgery.
NICE says new triple negative advanced breast cancer drug too expensive for NHS use
NICE has today, 7 April 2022, issued draft guidance which does not recommend sacituzumab govitecan for treating locally advanced or metastatic triple negative breast cancer.
NICE recommends Enhertu for more people with advanced breast cancer
Hundreds more people eligible for breast cancer drug Enhertu as NICE recommends it for earlier stage disease, in final draft guidance.
NICE final draft guidance adds further treatment option for triple-negative breast cancer
NICE has today (8 November 2022) published final draft guidance which recommends pembrolizumab as an option for people with a type of breast cancer called triple-negative breast cancer.
Ground-breaking commercial deals for anti-cancer medicine olaparib have paved the way for hundreds to benefit in final draft guidance published today (6 April 2023) by NICE that recommends it for some types of early breast cancer and advanced prostate cancer.
NICE draft guidance recommends new treatment option for people with early breast cancer
NICE has today (7 May 2020) published draft guidance which recommends trastuzumab emtansine (also called Kadcyla and made by Roche) as an option for some people with HER2-positive early breast cancer.
NICE draft guidance recommends tucatinib for advanced breast cancer
Taken as two 150 mg tablets twice daily together with anti-cancer medicines trastuzumab and capecitabine, tucatinib works by blocking a specific area of the HER2 gene in cancer cells, which stops the cells from growing and spreading.
Price discount helps give green light for breast cancer drug pertuzumab
NICE approves the third breast cancer drug is as many weeks as pertuzumab is recommended to shrink tumours in some people with breast cancer so surgery can take place.
Thousands of breast cancer patients to have routine access to NICE-approved drug combination
Another potentially life-extending drug combination for some people with advanced breast cancer will now be available for routine use after draft guidance from NICE today (26 February) recommended ribociclib (also called Kisqali and made by Novartis) is taken out of the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF).
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What are the options for women with inherited breast cancer?
Following Angelina Jolie?s decision to go public with the news that she has had a double mastectomy for breast cancer, we explore who is at risk and the treatment options available for women on the NHS.
Thousands of lives in England could be saved each year if the NHS follows updated guidance to help it diagnose cancer earlier. Here we outline what the guidance means for GPs.