The Scottish Medicines Consortium has recommended pembrolizumab be prescribed to certain patients
A breast cancer charity has welcomed the approval of a new drug to treat women with a particularly aggressive form of the disease, describing the new medication as giving "precious hope" for more lives to be saved in the long term.
The committee has accepted the use of metreleptin to treat people with lipodystrophy, a condition through which the body is unable to maintain healthy fat tissue leading to abnormalities and reduced life expectancy. The drug will be made available to sufferers for three years while further information is gathered about its clinical and cost effectiveness after which SMC will decide whether it should be routinely available across Scotland.
"While less common, triple negative breast cancer can be particularly aggressive and often with poorer outcomes. For those living with the disease and their loved ones, the fear of the cancer returning can be overwhelming. Meanwhile, the SMC chair, Dr Scott Muir, commented on the approval of metreleptin: "Lipodystrophy is a debilitating condition that can result in high morbidity with multi-organ damage of the liver, kidneys and pancreas, poor quality of life and premature death.
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