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Sirtex Medical receives positive recommendation from National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) using SIR-Spheres
WOBURN, Mass., Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Sirtex Medical US Holdings, Inc. ( Sirtex ), a leading manufacturer of targeted cancer therapies, received positive guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) regarding the use of selection internal radiation therapy (SIRT) with SIR-Spheres Y-90 microspheres for the treatment of adults with unresectable advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
NICE recommends the use of SIRT using SIR-Spheres in England and Wales as a fully funded and reimbursed option for adult patients with HCC, on the conditions that it is used for people with Child-Pugh grade A liver impairment when conventional transarterial therapies are inappropriate, and that the company provides SIR-Spheres according to the commercial arrangement.