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Cemiplimab update

BTOG can confirm that NICE has released guidance as follows:

Cemiplimab with platinum-based chemotherapy should not be used for untreated non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in adults when the cancer:

  • is locally advanced and not suitable for definitive chemoradiation, or metastatic 
  • has PD-L1 in 1% or more of the tumour cells and 
  • has no EGFR, ALK or ROS-1 aberrations.

This recommendation is not intended to affect treatment with cemiplimab with platinum-based chemotherapy that was started in the NHS before this guidance was published. People having treatment outside this recommendation may continue without change to the funding arrangements in place for them before this guidance was published, until they and their NHS healthcare professional consider it appropriate to stop.


Click for full details on the NICE website.

Project documents | Cemiplimab with platinum-based chemotherapy for untreated advanced non-small-cell lung cancer [ID3949] | Guidance | NICE

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