Takeda lashes out again over NICE's no to Adcetris

16 December 2016

The publication of a second draft recommendation not recommending use of Takeda Pharmaceutical’s (TYO: 4502) Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) in relapsed or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma (R/R HL) on the UK's National Health Service (NHS), has prompted fresh criticism from the Japanese drugmaker.

The drug is the current standard of care in this indication and it will remain so under the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) until the culmination of this review by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the cost-effectiveness watchdog for England and Wales. The final decision is expected in March 2017.

"The clinical community is on the brink of losing a medicine that is the standard of care"

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