UK – NICE recommends pharmaand’s Rubraca for advanced ovarian cancer

The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended pharmaand’s (pharma&) Rubraca (rucaparib) as a first-line maintenance treatment option for a subset of advanced ovarian cancer patients.

The health technology assessment agency has recommended in final draft guidance that the drug be used on the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to treat advanced high-grade epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer in adults who have had a complete or partial response to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy.

Eligible patients must also be without a BRCA mutation and have homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) positive or negative disease, as well as not be able to receive bevacizumab…