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thyrotropin alfa (Thyrogen®)

 

Status: Medicine does not meet criteria for AWMSG assessment

Excluded from appraisal by AWMSG as meets exclusion criteria 1. See AWMSG criteria for appraising a medicine (PDF, 430Kb) for information.

Medicine details

Medicine name thyrotropin alfa (Thyrogen®)
Formulation 0.9 mg powder for solution for injection
Reference number 669
Indication

Pre-therapeutic stimulation in combination with 100 mCi (3.7 GBq) radioiodine for ablation of thyroid tissue remnants in patients who have undergone a near-total or total thyroidectomy for well-differentiated thyroid cancer and who do not have evidence of distant metastatic thyroid cancer

Company Genzyme Therapeutics
BNF chapter Endocrine system
Submission type N/A
Status Medicine does not meet criteria for AWMSG assessment
Date of issue 01/06/2010
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