Disease index

glioma

Oncology · 2005–2024

5decisions
3medicines
2carried consumer input
1individual submissions

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
bevacizumab Multiple cancer indications: metastatic colorectal cancer, locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer, advanced/metastatic/recurrent non-squamous non-small… Mar 2024 Recommended 1 individuals Medical Oncology Group
dabrafenib; trametinib Treatment of paediatric patients aged ≥12 months to <18 years with BRAF V600E mutation-positive low-grade glioma (LGG) with progressive disease following… Dec 2024 Recommended with restriction input received
bevacizumab Treatment of relapsed or refractory glioblastoma in patients who have progressed on or are intolerant to temozolomide. May 2019 Recommended with restriction unclear
carmustine Adjunct to surgery and radiation for newly-diagnosed high-grade malignant gliomas (Grade III and IV gliomas), including glioblastoma multiforme. Mar 2006 Not recommended no section in document
carmustine Treatment of newly-diagnosed high-grade malignant glioma patients as an adjunct to surgery and radiation. Nov 2005 Recommended with restriction no section in document

Who spoke

Medical Oncology Group

What the PBS pays

$107M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 86,344 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
dabrafenib and trametinib $57.2M
bevacizumab $49.4M

Appraised elsewhere

NICE, in England and Wales, has appraised 4 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
vorasidenibVorasidenib for treating astrocytoma or oligodendroglioma with IDH1 or IDH2 mutations after surgery in people 12 years and over TA1147 recommended 2026-04
dabrafenibDabrafenib with trametinib for treating BRAF V600E mutation-positive glioma in children and young people aged 1 year and over TA977 recommended 2024-05
carmustine implants and temozolomideCarmustine implants and temozolomide for the treatment of newly diagnosed high-grade glioma TA121 recommended 2007-06
guidance on the use of temozolomideGuidance on the use of temozolomide for the treatment of recurrent malignant glioma (brain cancer) TA23 recommended restricted 2001-04

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: 2 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.