On behalf of the PePS2 investigators, we would be most grateful if you would take a minute or two to complete this short survey which will be of significant importance in any decision to try to get access for our PS2 lung cancer patients to pembrolizumab through NICE, a group who as you know are not currently included in the NICE criteria for pembrolizumab.
Our request to NICE is based upon the recent publication of PePS2 trial, the abstract of which can be found at the link below; the full paper is also freely available with a simple registration, or we can provide this by emailing
peps2@trials.bham.ac.uk. In essence, it shows that pembrolizumab is well tolerated and has very acceptable levels of activity particularly in patients with PD-L1 positive cancers.
Gary Middleton , Kristian Brock, Joshua Savage, Rhys Mant, Yvonne Summers, John Connibear, Riyaz Shah, Christian Ottensmeier, Paul Shaw, Siow-Ming Lee, Sanjay Popat, Colin Barrie, Gloria Barone, Lucinda Billingham. Pembrolizumab in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer of performance status 2 (PePS2): a single arm, phase 2 trial. Lancet Respir Med 2020 Sep;8(9):895-904. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30033-3. Epub 2020 Mar 19.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30033-3/fulltext