Status:
Awaiting development
Technology type:
Medicine
Decision:
Selected
Reason for decision:
Anticipate the topic will be of importance to patients, carers, professionals, commissioners and the health of the public to ensure clinical benefit is realised, inequalities in use addressed, and help them make the best use of NHS resources
Further information:
Topic in appraisal.
Process:
STA Standard

Provisional Schedule

Committee meeting: 1:
04 March 2026
Expected publication:
21 May 2026

Project Team

Project lead
Kate Moore

Email enquiries

If you have any queries please email [email protected]

Stakeholders

Companies sponsors
Bayer (larotrectinib)
Others
Department of Health and Social Care
 
NHS England
Patient carer groups
Action Kidney Cancer
 
Anthony Pilcher Bone Cancer Trust
 
Asthma + Lung Foundation
 
Black Health Agency for Equality
 
Bob Champion Cancer Trust
 
Bowel Cancer UK
 
Breast Cancer Now
 
Breast Cancer UK
 
British Skin Foundation
 
Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust
 
Cancer 52
 
Cancer Black Care
 
Cancer Laryngectomee Trust
 
Changing Faces
 
Childhood Cancer Parents Alliance
 
Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group
 
Children with Cancer
 
Genetic Alliance UK
 
Get-A-Head
 
GIST Cancer UK
 
Helen Rollason Cancer Charity
 
Independent Cancer Patients Voice
 
Kidney Cancer UK
 
Kidney Care UK
 
Kidney Research UK
 
Let's Face It
 
Macmillan Cancer Support
 
Maggie’s Centres
 
Marie Curie
 
Mouth Cancer Foundation
 
National Association of Laryngectomee Clubs
 
National Kidney Federation
 
NTRKers
 
Orchid – Fighting Male Cancer
 
OUTpatients
 
Prostate Cancer UK
 
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
 
Sarcoma UK
 
Solving Kid’s Cancer
 
South Asian Health Foundation
 
Specialised Healthcare Alliance
 
Swallows Head and Neck Cancer Support Group
 
Teenage Cancer Trust
 
Tenovus Cancer Care
 
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
 
Together for Short Lives
 
UK Lung Cancer Coalition
 
Women’s Health Concern
 
Young Lives vs Cancer
Professional groups
Association of Anaesthetists
 
Association of Cancer Physicians
 
Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists
 
Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
 
British Association of Dermatologists
 
British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons
 
British Association of Surgical Oncology
 
British Association of Urological Surgeons
 
British Dermatological Nursing Group
 
British Geriatrics Society
 
British Institute of Radiology
 
British Oncology Pharmacy Association
 
British Orthopaedic Association
 
British Orthopaedic Oncology Society
 
British Psychosocial Oncology Society
 
British Sarcoma Group
 
British Society for Dermatological Surgery
 
British Society of Skeletal Radiologists
 
British Society of Urogenital Radiology
 
British Thoracic Oncology Group
 
British Thoracic Society
 
British Thyroid Association
 
British Uro-oncology Group
 
Cancer Research UK
 
CCLG
 
Lung Cancer Nursing UK
 
Melanoma Focus
 
Pelican Cancer Foundation
 
Primary Care Dermatology Society
 
Royal College of Anaesthetists
 
Royal College of General Practitioners
 
Royal College of Nursing
 
Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health
 
Royal College of Pathologists
 
Royal College of Physicians
 
Royal College of Radiologists
 
Royal College of Surgeons
 
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
 
Royal Society of Medicine
 
Society and College of Radiographers
 
UK Clinical Pharmacy Association
 
UK Kidney Association
 
UK Oncology Nursing Society
 
UK Renal Pharmacy Group
Associated public health groups
Public Health Wales
 
UK Health Security Agency
Comparator companies
None
General commentators
All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre
 
Allied Health Professionals Federation
 
Board of Community Health Councils in Wales
 
British National Formulary
 
Care Quality Commission
 
Department of Health - Northern Ireland
 
Healthcare Improvement Scotland
 
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
 
National Association of Primary Care
 
National Pharmacy Association
 
NHS Confederation
 
NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee
 
Scottish Medicines Consortium
 
Welsh Government
Relevant research groups
Against Breast Cancer
 
Bone Cancer Research Trust
 
Bone Research Society
 
Breast Cancer Hope
 
Breast Cancer Research Trust
 
Cochrane Breast Cancer Group
 
Cochrane Childhood Cancer Group
 
Cochrane Lung Cancer Group
 
Cochrane Prostatic Diseases Urologic Cancers Group
 
Cochrane Skin Group
 
Genomics England
 
Institute of Cancer Research
 
Melanoma Fund
 
MRC Clinical Trials Unit
 
National Institute for Health Research
 
Oracle Cancer Trust
 
Pro Cancer Research Fund
 
Prostate Cancer Research Centre
 
Research Institute for the Care of Older People
 
Skin Cancer Research Fund
 
Skin Treatment & Research Trust

Timeline

Key events during the development of the guidance:

Date Update
04 August 2025 Invitation to participate
13 June 2025 - 10 July 2025 Consultation on suggested remit, draft scope and provisional stakeholder list of consultees and commentators
13 June 2024 Awaiting development
13 June 2024 Please note that following on from advice received from the company, further information regarding the timelines for this appraisal will be available in due course. In the meantime, NICE will continue to monitor the situation and will provide an update as and when the situation changes.

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