UK actor and TV personality Nadia Sawalha is spearheading a fundraising effort to launch an appeal against the recent rejection of a breast cancer therapy by cost-effectiveness agency NICE.
GSK has reached an agreement that it says will resolve 93% of the outstanding lawsuits brought against the company claiming that its gastrointestinal drug Zantac caused cancer.
Takeda's recently approved advanced colorectal cancer therapy Fruzaqla has been rejected by NICE for use by the NHS on the grounds that it is not cost-effective.
A phase 3 trial of Johnson & Johnson's TAR-200 therapy in bladder cancer has failed to show efficacy, although the company is still confident in the potential of the programme.