Regulatory approval

Published by the Health Service Executive. Approved

The Republic of Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) has approved erlotinib for reimbursement as a treatment option for the first-line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR activating mutations.

This is written in the approval document as:

First-line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR activating mutations

Reimbursement

CDS

Citation

Erlotinib Therapy, 2021, version number 5, NCCP National SACT Regimen, NCCP, viewed 26/03/2026, https://healthservice.hse.ie/documents/6938/219_V5_Erlotinib_monotherapy.pdf

Therapeutic response

Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.

Organizations	Biomarkers	Cancer types	Therapies
HSE (1)	EGFR activating variants	Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer	Erlotinib

Contributions

Date	Contributor	Description
2024-01-16	Van Allen lab	Adding HSE approvals for reimbursement to database
2014-04-05	Health Service Executive	Indication approved for reimbursement.