Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2022
Over 500 people a year can access a new life extending lung cancer treatment after NICE recommends its use within the Cancer Drugs Fund
3 March 2022 - An innovative life-extending drug for treating mutation-positive locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer in adults is being recommended by NICE as an option for use within the Cancer Drugs Fund.
NICE has today published its final appraisal document on sotorasib (Lumykras, Amgen), a once a day tablet, which is being recommended for people with the KRAS G12C gene mutation of non-small-cell lung cancer who have progressed on, or are intolerant to, platinum-based chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy.
