NICE drops Eli Lilly's gastric cancer drug from list of final recommendations
US drug major Eli Lilly’s (NYSE: LLY) ramucirumab (Cyramza) to treat gastric cancer did not make it to the final list of recommendations by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
The independent appraisal committee has concluded that ramucirumab does not provide enough benefit to patients to justify its high cost and did not qualify for end of life considerations. The drug is prescribed for people whose stomach cancer has spread or if they have cancer that develops at the point where the food pipe joins to the stomach.
The final list of recommendations include, AstraZeneca’s (LSE: AZN) olaparib for maintenance treatment of ovarian cancer, Bayer's (BAYN: DE) Xofigo (radium 223 dichloride) for prostate cancer, Novartis’ (VTX: NOVN) panobinostat for multiple myeloma. The recommendation also includes Boehringer Ingelheim’s idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis drug nintedanib.
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