Disease index

prostate cancer (nmCRPC)

Oncology · 2018–2022

7decisions
3medicines
6carried consumer input
20individual submissions

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
enzalutamide Non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (m0CRPC) in patients with PSA doubling time of 10 months or less, WHO performance score of 0 or 1, and no… Mar 2022 Recommended with restriction unclear
darolutamide Treatment of patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (m0CRPC) at high risk of distant metastases, defined as those with… Mar 2021 Not recommended input received Prostate Cancer Foundation · Medical Oncology Group
apalutamide Treatment of patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (m0CRPC) at high risk of distant metastases (defined by prostate specific… Nov 2021 Recommended with restriction input received Prostate Cancer Foundation · Medical Oncology Group
darolutamide Treatment of patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (m0CRPC) at high risk of distant metastases, defined as prostate-specific… Jul 2020 Not recommended 3 individuals Geelong Prostate Support Group · Prostate Cancer Foundation · Medical Oncology Group
apalutamide Treatment of patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (m0CRPC) at high risk of distant metastases, defined by prostate-specific… Nov 2020 Not recommended 2 individuals Prostate Cancer Foundation · Medical Oncology Group
apalutamide Treatment of patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (m0CRPC) at high risk of distant metastases, defined as PSA doubling time ≤10… Jul 2019 Not recommended 6 individuals Geelong Prostate Support Group · Medical Oncology Group
apalutamide Treatment of patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (m0CRPC) at high risk of distant metastases, defined as PSA doubling time ≤10… Nov 2018 Not recommended 9 individuals Medical Oncology Group

Who spoke

Medical Oncology Group · Prostate Cancer Foundation · Geelong Prostate Support Group

What the PBS pays

$378M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 108,004 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
enzalutamide $179.9M
darolutamide $147.6M
apalutamide $50.6M

Appraised elsewhere

NICE, in England and Wales, has appraised 4 technologies for this condition, recommending 2 and declining 1. 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
enzalutamideEnzalutamide for treating non-metastatic prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy (terminated appraisal) TA994 terminated 2024-08
apalutamideApalutamide with androgen deprivation therapy for treating high-risk hormone-relapsed non-metastatic prostate cancer TA740 recommended restricted 2021-10
darolutamideDarolutamide with androgen deprivation therapy for treating hormone-relapsed non-metastatic prostate cancer TA660 recommended restricted 2020-11
enzalutamideEnzalutamide for hormone-relapsed non-metastatic prostate cancer TA580 not recommended 2019-05

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: 6 of 7 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.