NICE issues negative draft guidance on Unituxin

5 November 2015

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has begun a consultation on draft guidance this morning about a treatment for neuroblastoma. We will not be issuing a formal press release, but I wanted to let you know in case it is of interest.

The guidance sets out England and Wales medicines watchdog NICE’s provisional recommendations for US biotech firm United Therapeutics’ (Nasdaq: UTHR) Unituxin (dinutuximab) when used in combination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, interleukin-2 and isotretinoin, as a treatment for high-risk neuroblastoma for children and young people between the ages of 12 months and 17 years.

Not cost-effective use of NHS resources

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