MSD's Keytruda has become the first immunotherapy cleared by NICE for previously-untreated patients with advanced oesophageal cancer, making it an option for routine NHS treatment.
Given the rising cost of medicines as a share of the NHS budget in England, the establishment of ICSs provides a timely opportunity to take stock on delivering medicines optimisation at loc
A blood test called Galleri that could detect dozens of different forms of cancer before symptoms appear will start trials by the NHS in England involving around 140,000 subjects.<
Amgen's first-in-class KRAS inhibitor Lumykras has been approved in Great Britain and arrives already armed with an agreement to allow early access while its cost-effectiveness is appraised
NICE has reversed its position on Johnson & Johnson's oral prostate cancer therapy Erleada in patients with hormone-relapsed or hormone sensitive tumours, backing NHS use of the drug.