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Update (September 19): Although the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) decided that Kymriah could be used in young patients with hard-to-treat leukemia, the agency ruled that the therapy is not cost-effective for adults with lymphoma.
Update (September 5): Novartis struck a deal with the UK’s National Health Service to accelerate the delivery of Kymriah to young leukemia patients not responding to other treatments, Reuters reports. List price in the country is £282,000 ($361,750) per patient.
The European Commission has approved the use of Novartis’s tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah) and Gilead’s axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta), two chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) therapies, for certain cancer patients. This new class of therapies has been hailed as a breakthrough in cancer treatment, but cost is a sticking point.
Just one day after the European Commission greenlighted Yescarta, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the ...
