Disease index

squamous NSCLC

Oncology · 2016–2016

2decisions
1medicine
2carried consumer input
0individual submissions

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
nivolumab Treatment of locally advanced or metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in patients who have progressed on or after prior platinum-based… Mar 2016 Not recommended input received Lung Foundation
nivolumab Treatment of locally advanced or metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in patients who have progressed on or after prior platinum-based… Nov 2016 Deferred input received Medical Oncology Group · Lung Foundation

Who spoke

Lung Foundation · Medical Oncology Group

What the PBS pays

$85M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 7,937 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
nivolumab $85.2M

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
pembrolizumabPembrolizumab with carboplatin and paclitaxel for untreated metastatic squamous non-small-cell lung cancer TA770 recommended restricted 2022-02
nivolumabNivolumab for advanced squamous non-small-cell lung cancer after chemotherapy TA655 recommended restricted 2020-10
afatinibAfatinib for treating advanced squamous non-small-cell lung cancer after platinum-based chemotherapy (terminated appraisal) TA444 terminated 2017-05
necitumumabNecitumumab for untreated advanced or metastatic squamous non-small-cell lung cancer TA411 not recommended 2016-09

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 2 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.