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SMC Follows NICE And Backs Lilly’s Verzenios In Advanced Breast Cancer

 
• By Ian Schofield

The SMC has given the all clear to funding for Lilly’s Verzenios for breast cancer, Richter’s Reagila for schizophrenia, and MSD’s Keytruda for melanoma. However, it rejected Alliance’s Xonvea for sickness in pregnancy because the evidence on benefits and cost effectiveness did not stack up.

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The SMC has OKd three new drugs and turned down one

The Scottish Medicines Consortium has recommended the funding of Lilly Research Laboratories’s Verzenios (abemaciclib) for the treatment of advanced or metastatic breast cancer under the national health service in Scotland in combination with either fulvestrant or an aromatase inhibitor.

The health technology assessment body also gave the green light to Gedeon Richter PLC/Recordati Industria Chimica & Farmaceutica SPA’s Reagila (cariprazine) for schizophrenia, and to Merck Sharp...

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