NICE backs skin cancer drug Libtayo for NHS use

2 July 2019

National Health Service patients in the UK will be the first to gain access in Europe to new skin cancer treatment, Libtayo (cemiplimab), through the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), it was revealed today, just a day after the drug won conditional regulatory approval from the European Commission.

French pharma major Sanofi (Euronext: SAN), which has developed the product in partnership with US biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: REGN), today announced that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a positive Final Appraisal Determination (FAD) recommending Libtayo as an option for treating metastatic or locally advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) in adults when curative surgery or curative radiation is not appropriate.

According to a Sanofi statement:

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