Incyte's Iclusig recommended in NICE's draft guidance

13 February 2017

Draft guidance has been published recommending the routine use of the cancer drug Iclusig (ponatinib) on the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the cost-effectiveness watchdog for England and Wales, has recommended funding the use of the drug from US biotech firm Incyte (Nasdaq: INCY) for some patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

Iclusig is currently available to patients on the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), which pays for patients to use certain oncology drugs which are not available on the NHS.

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