10 March 2021 - Pembrolizumab was listed in the Cancer Drugs Fund for this indication.
Pembrolizumab with pemetrexed and platinum chemotherapy is recommended as an option for adults with untreated, metastatic, non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer whose tumours have no epidermal growth factor receptor positive or anaplastic lymphoma kinase positive mutations.
This is only if pembrolizumab is stopped at 2 years of uninterrupted treatment, or earlier if the disease progresses and Merck provides pembrolizumab according to the commercial arrangement.
Read NICE Technology Appraisal Guidance for pembrolizumab