NICE Clears Amgen’s Imlygic At Second Attempt, Combo Results Keenly Awaited

A completely new form of therapy, the use of viruses to kill cancer cells, is now recommended by NICE for use in melanoma patients in England in final draft guidance, although its future therapeutic and commercial success may depend on positive findings from ongoing combination studies with checkpoint inhibitors and other immunotherapies.

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Amgen Inc.’s oncolytic virus-based immunotherapy Imlygic (talimogene laherparepvec) has been cleared for use in melanoma patients by the UK’s National Institute for health and Care Excellence (NICE), at the second time of asking.

The recommendation in NICE’s final draft guidance came after Amgen put in place a patient access scheme (PAC) in which...

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