The health spending watchdog said the ‘the cost-effectiveness estimates were too high for it to be recommended for use in the NHS’.
As a result, Nice said the “cost-effectiveness estimates were too high for it to be recommended for use in the NHS” and called for more information from the manufacturer on the benefits.
Commenting on the announcement, Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive at Breast Cancer Now, said: “Today’s devastating provisional decision will deny certain patients living with incurable secondary breast cancer of the hope that trastuzumab deruxtecan could bring them, of both more time to live and more time before their disease progresses.
Helen Crawford, patient advocate from METUPUK, a patient group dedicated to metastatic breast cancer, added: “We have been given this hope for so long that HER2-low treatments for metastatic breast cancer were in development and coming. Jo Taylor, founder of the group, added: “All patients across the UK who could benefit from these treatments should be able to access them.”
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