Cetuximab gets go ahead in Wales for mCRC patients

6 January 2016

Germany’s Merck (MRK: DE) has welcomed a decision by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) to recommend cetuximab (Erbitux) for some colorectal cancer patients in Wales.

Cetuximab has been recommended as an option for restricted use within NHS Wales for the first-line treatment of patients with epidermal grown factor receptor (EGFR)- expressing, RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) in combination with irinotecan-based chemotherapy or in combination with FOLFOX.

It comes weeks after medicines cost watch-dog for England and Wales, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), failed to recommend cetuximab.

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