Both are oral drugs, given in concert with hormonal therapies, that inhibit two proteins called CDK 4 and 6. They have the same official list price of 2,950 pounds ($3,882) for one cycle of treatment.
The size of the discounts being offered by the manufacturers are commercially confidential.
A third CDK 4/6 drug from Eli Lilly is also licensed in the United States but not yet in Europe.
Pfizer’s Ibrance was the first CDK 4/6 drug to win a European green light. However, NICE initially turned it down for use on the National Health Service (NHS) in February because its cost was too high.
The U.S. company on Thursday welcomed the NICE decision to fund it now, following the pricing deal, but UK oncology head Craig Eagle said there were “still challenges” in bringing new cancer medicines to patients in Britain.
In the case of Novartis’s Kisqali, the NICE decision has been unusually fast and the medicine is the first cancer treatment to be recommended by the cost watchdog within 90 days of marketing authorization through an updated review process.
Reporting by Ben Hirschler, editing by David Evans
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