Disease index

biliary tract cancer

Oncology · 2023–2024

3decisions
2medicines
3carried consumer input
16individual submissions

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
ivosidenib Treatment of locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with an IDH1 mutation in patients who have progressed on at least one prior line of systemic… Nov 2024 Recommended with restriction 12 individuals Pancare Foundation · Liver Foundation · Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Australia · Medical Oncology Group
durvalumab First-line treatment of patients with locally advanced, metastatic, or recurrent biliary tract cancer (intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, extrahepatic… Jul 2023 Recommended input received Medical Oncology Group
durvalumab First-line treatment of patients with advanced biliary tract cancer (locally advanced unresectable, metastatic, or recurrent disease), in combination with… Mar 2023 Not recommended 4 individuals Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Australia · Rare Cancers Australia · Australasian Gastro Intestinal Trials Group · PanCare Foundation · Medical Oncology Group

Who spoke

Medical Oncology Group · Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Australia · Pancare Foundation · Liver Foundation · Rare Cancers Australia · Australasian Gastro Intestinal Trials Group · PanCare Foundation

What the PBS pays

$176M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 16,460 services.

This is spend on the medicines considered for this condition, not spend on the disease. A medicine used for several conditions is counted in full under each, so figures across conditions add to more than national PBS expenditure.

MedicineGovernment benefit
durvalumab $175.6M

Appraised elsewhere

NICE, in England and Wales, has appraised 5 technologies for this condition, recommending 4 . A different committee, a different population and a different price: this is what has been looked at there, not a verdict on what happened here.

TechnologyAppraisalOutcomeDate
zanidatamabZanidatamab for treating HER2-positive advanced biliary tract cancer after 1 or more lines of systemic treatment TA1153 recommended restricted 2026-05
pembrolizumabPembrolizumab with gemcitabine and cisplatin for untreated advanced biliary tract cancer (terminated appraisal) TA966 terminated 2024-04
ivosidenibIvosidenib for treating advanced cholangiocarcinoma with an IDH1 R132 mutation after 1 or more systemic treatments TA948 recommended restricted 2024-01
durvalumabDurvalumab with gemcitabine and cisplatin for treating unresectable or advanced biliary tract cancer TA944 recommended restricted 2024-01
pemigatinibPemigatinib for treating relapsed or refractory advanced cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement TA722 recommended restricted 2021-08

Conditions are classified by a language model from the indication text of each submission, so an individual label here can be wrong. Consumer input is read from the document's own consumer comments section: 3 of 3 decisions since 2014 carried some. Silence means no comment reached the committee through that facility, not that nobody was affected. More on how this was built.