oral squamous cell carcinoma
Oncology · 2016–2016
Every decision
| Medicine | Meeting | Outcome | Consumer input |
|---|---|---|---|
| cetuximab First-line treatment of patients with previously untreated recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity in combination with… | Mar 2016 | Not recommended | input received Rare Cancers Australia |
Who spoke
Rare Cancers Australia
What the PBS pays
$43M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 18,424 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.
| Medicine | Government benefit |
|---|---|
| cetuximab | $42.5M |
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: 1 of 1 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.