The UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published final draft guidance recommending Talzenna (talazoparib) for HER2- negative, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer with germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations in adults.
This guidance from England's cost-effectiveness watchdog is a reversal of its earlier position on the Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) product and stems from a confidential discount being offered by the US pharma giant from the price that the company proposed some six months ago.
"The first BRCA-targeted treatment to be recommended in the advanced breast cancer setting in the National Health Service"
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