England’s NICE Turns Down Pfizer’s Talzenna In HER2-Negative Breast Cancer

Pfizer’s Talzenna is not cost effective enough to be used on the National Health Service for patients with HER2-negative advanced breast cancer with inherited BRCA mutations, according to draft guidance from England’s health technology assessment body NICE.

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NICE, the body that makes reimbursement recommendations for England’s National Health Service, has given the thumbs down to Pfizer Inc.’s PARP inhibitor Talzenna (talazoparib) for the treatment of certain types of advanced breast cancer in preliminary guidance on 28 July, saying the drug is not a cost-effective use of NHS resources.

In it draft guidance, NICE cited Talzenna’s lack of overall survival benefit compared with chemotherapy as a main reason the drug could not be recommended for NHS use

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