Disease index

prostate cancer

Oncology · 2006–2024

7decisions
4medicines
0carried consumer input
0individual submissions

No submission for this condition has carried consumer input, including the 4 made since the comments facility came into use.

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
leuprorelin acetate Locally advanced (stage C) or metastatic (stage D) carcinoma of the prostate, and central precocious puberty. Nov 2024 Recommended none received
leuprorelin Treatment of locally advanced (Stage C) and metastatic (Stage D) prostate cancer. Jul 2019 Not recommended none received
degarelix Treatment of locally advanced (stage C) or metastatic (stage D) carcinoma of the prostate. Mar 2017 Recommended with restriction none received
leuprorelin acetate Treatment of locally advanced (stage C) or metastatic (stage D) carcinoma of the prostate. Jul 2015 Recommended none received
degarelix Locally advanced (equivalent to stage C) or metastatic (equivalent to stage D) carcinoma of the prostate. Jul 2010 Recommended with restriction no section in document
triptorelin embonate Treatment of locally advanced or metastatic carcinoma of the prostate. Nov 2006 Recommended with restriction no section in document
triptorelin embonate Treatment of locally advanced or metastatic carcinoma of the prostate. Nov 2006 Recommended with restriction no section in document

What the PBS pays

$131M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 180,916 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
leuprorelin $56.8M
leuprorelin acetate $56.8M
degarelix $10.6M
Triptorelin $6.8M

Appraised elsewhere

NICE, in England and Wales, has appraised 1 technology for this condition, recommending 0 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
padeliporfinPadeliporfin for untreated localised prostate cancer TA546 not recommended 2018-11

Registered, not subsidised

Medicines on the ARTG for this condition with no PBAC record at all. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions: a medicine can be legally available in Australia and never have been put to the committee.

MedicineOn the ARTG sinceRegistrations
flutamideFLUTAMIN flutamide 250mg tablet blister pack 1999 1

The ARTG export holds current registrations only, so the year is the earliest entry still on the register rather than a first-registration date. The condition here comes from the registered label, which is usually broader than the population a sponsor asks to have subsidised.

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: 0 of 4 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.