NICE starts consultation on AstraZeneca's Lynparza, saying it is too expensive
The medicines watchdog for England, the National Institute for Health and care Excellence (NICE) has today (June 1) opened a consultation preliminary draft guidance on the drug Anglo-Swedish pharma major AstraZeneca’s (LSE: AZN) olaparib (trade name Lynparza) for maintenance treatment of relapsed platinum-sensitive ovarian, fallopian tube and peritoneal cancer.
The drug is for cancers in people who have tested positive for the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, and whose disease has responded to second-line or subsequent platinum-based chemotherapy.
The evidence provided shows that the price that the National Health Service (NHS) is being asked to pay for olaparib is too high for the benefit it may provide to patients, so the preliminary guidance does not recommend it. This draft guidance is now open for public consultation: NICE has not yet published final guidance to the NHS.
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