'Long-awaited' NICE nod for Iclusig in England

28 April 2017

A cancer drug which was approved by the European Commission in 2013 has finally been recommended for use on the National Health Service (NHS) in England.

US biotech firm Incyte Corp (Nasdaq: INCY) says that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a final appraisal determination (FAD) recommending Iclusig (ponatinib) for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in adults with chronic phase, accelerated phase, or blast phase CML who are resistant to dasatinib or nilotinib, who are intolerant to dasatinib or nilotinib and for whom subsequent treatment with imatinib is not clinically appropriate, or who have the T315I mutation.

"Together with the CML community, we have worked very hard over the last four years to encourage NICE to reconsider its original evaluation"

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