Takeda angry at NICE negativity on CDF drug Adcetris

10 August 2016

Japanese pharma major Takeda Pharmaceutical (TYO: 4502) has expressed its disappointment at preliminary draft guidance from the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which does not recommend Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) – a drug which is on the old UK’s Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) list.

Brentuximab vedotin is used to treat some people with Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL). It is available in the old CDF – the fund set up to pay for cancer drugs that were not available on the National Health Service (NHS) – for two out of the three indications looked at by the NICE, the medicines cost-effectiveness watchdog for England and Wales.

The NICE had not previously appraised brentuximab vedotin, which can cost between £69,000 ($89,750) and £87,000 per patient per course for any of these indications.

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