Disease index

urothelial cancer

Oncology · 2022–2022

1decision
1medicine
0carried consumer input
0individual submissions

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

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
pembrolizumab Locally advanced (Stage III) or metastatic (Stage IV) urothelial cancer. Nov 2022 Noted none received

What the PBS pays

$740M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 87,155 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
pembrolizumab $739.6M

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
nivolumabNivolumab for treating locally advanced unresectable or metastatic urothelial cancer after platinum-containing chemotherapy TA530 not recommended 2018-07

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
cisplatinCISPLATIN ACCORD cisplatin 10 mg/10 mL concentrated injection vial 1994 10

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 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.