UK’s NICE Reverses View On Afinitor In Renal Cancer After Novartis Cuts Price
Executive Summary
UK HTA body NICE says it is now backing Novartis’s Afinitor for the treatment of some people with advanced kidney cancer on the publicly funded National Health Service after the Swiss group offered a price discount. This changes the availability in England and Wales of the drug, which was previously only available through the controversial Cancer Drugs Fund. NICE has now given the go-ahead for routine commissioning of 13 cancer drugs/indications that were listed on the CDF before it was revamped last year.