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. |
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Medicine details |
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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 |