UK cost agency NICE rejects another Roche cancer drug

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UK cost agency NICE rejects another Roche cancer drug

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/uk-cost-agency-nice-rejects-another-roche-cancer-231430495--finance.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Q2dqhZ5GHIyLbvj_GAVX2A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9Njk7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-10-02T231430Z_1_LYNXNPEA910ZR_RTROPTP_2_SWITZERLAND-BUSINESS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A general view shows the construction site of a new office building of Swiss drugmaker Roche on the banks of the river Rhine in Basel" align="left" title="A general view shows the construction site of a new office building of Swiss drugmaker Roche on the banks of the river Rhine in Basel" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - Another new cancer drug from Roche, this time for treating leukaemia, has been rejected by Britain's healthcare cost-effectiveness agency NICE on the grounds that data about its value is uncertain. In August the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) rejected the Swiss drugmaker's drug Kadcyla for an aggressive form of breast cancer. Roche had proposed a discount for that drug, which carries a full list price of more than 90,000 pounds for a course of treatment. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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