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Sanofi’s Orbis-Approved GVHD Drug Rezurock Rejected For English Funding

 
• By Eliza Slawther

NICE has provisionally turned down three products for funding under the National Health Service in England: Sanofi’s Rezurock for chronic graft-versus-host disease, Sobi’s lymphoma drug Zynlonta, and AstraZeneca/Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu for the new indication of HER2-low breast cancer.

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England’s NICE has provisionally turned down Sanofi’s Rezurock (belumosudil) for National Health Service funding as a treatment for chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in patients over the age of 12 years who have had two or more systemic therapies.

Rezurock was not compared directly against other best available therapies for chronic GVHD after two systemic therapies, the health technology assessment body said in 4 October

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