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Monday 11 July 2016

NICE approves first drug from old Cancer Drugs Fund

But it’s not going to be in the new CDF?  It’s not clear, but the re-appraisal has a new section “Cancer Drugs Fund reconsideration” that seems to say that further data collection is not possible.  However, with one ‘plausible’ estimate of post-treatment benefits and another ‘no unreasonable’ estimate of best supportive care costs, it becomes cost-effective after a further discount from Pfizer.

Read it yourself and see what you think.  It’s here.