Questioning Stivarga’s Cost-Effectiveness In Colon Cancer

The high cost of colon cancer drugs is once again under fire, this time with Bayer and Onyx in the hot seat. In a Lancet editorial accompanying pivotal trial results for regorafenib, U.K. authors doubt the modestly efficacious drug will ever prove cost-effectiveness in colon cancer, but that its role in GIST looks more compelling.

The modest efficacy and toxic effects of Bayer AG/Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s Stivarga (regorafenib) suggest the drug is unlikely to be cost-effective in advanced colon cancer, according to an editorial in the Lancet, in what is becoming a familiar refrain in the crowded, expensive treatment space.

The Nov. 22 editorial, written by U.K. oncologists, comes as the drug is under review in Europe for metastatic colorectal cancer, following a filing in May 2012. It accompanied publication...

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