The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended Accord’s oral hormone therapy, Orgovyx (relugolix), for use in advanced prostate cancer patients.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK, with approximately 51,000 new cases diagnosed in England in 2022 alone.
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Orgovyx reduces levels of testosterone by blocking the producttestosteroneormone in the testes aprostate cancera tablet, offering an alternative to other hormone treatments given by injection and providing patients with the option to take it at home.
Orgovyxfinal draft guidanctestosteroneg was supported by clinical trial evidence suggesting that Orgovyx is better at reducing testosterone to levels that stop cancer growth in the longer term than leuprolide and reduces the risk of serious cardiovascular events compared to leuprolide.
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Helen Knight, director of medicines evaluation at NICE, OrgovyxWe are continuing to focus on what matters most to people by recommending this innovative and effective treatment that can make a positive difference to people with advanced prostate cancer.
“[Orgovyx] provides a convenient and flexible treatment option compared with therapies that need to be injected, helping people to avoid travel and time off work and the evidence shows it can improve people’s quality of life.”advanced prostate cancer
ThOrgovyxmendation comes just one month after a mid-stage trial led by researchers from the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Cancer Research found that hormone therapy in combination with radiotherapy could delay the need for chemotherapy in advanced prostate cancer patients.