Approval and listing dates of protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors

Thank you for your request dated 20 January 2022 under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) for information relating to Pharmac approval of protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors. You requested: 

a list of dates that protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors have been approved to be funded by PHARMAC. E.g. Gefitinib was approved on 1 Aug 2012 

Please see the table below for the information requested. 

Medicine Date decision announced Date listed
Palbociclib (Ibrance) 5 March 2020 1 April 2020
Alectinib (Alecensa) 7 October 2019 1 December 2019
Ruxolitinib (Jakavi) 6 September 2018 1 October 2018
Nilotinib (Tasigna) 9 October 2014 1 November 2014
Gefitinib (Iressa) 5 July 2012 [PDF, 144 KB] 1 August 2012
Lapatinib ditosylate (Tykerb) 1 March 2012 [PDF, 166 KB] 1 April 2012
Pazopanib (Votrient) 1 March 2012 [PDF, 166 KB] 1 April 2012
Sunitinib malate (Sutent) 28 September 2010 1 November 2010
Erlotinib (Tarceva) 3 September 2010 [PDF, 58 KB] 1 October 2010
Dasatinib (Sprycel) 30 June 2009 1 August 2009
Imatinib mesylate (Glivec) November 2002 1 December 2002

Where found, I have included a hyperlink to the related decision notification for each listed protein tyrosine kinase inhibitor medicine. 

We trust that this information answers your queries. 

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