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NHS England updates CDF List

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NHS England has upded the Cancer Drugs Fund List on its website. We have updated our website to correspond.
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February 12, 2026

NHS England updates CDF List

NHS England has updated the Cancer Drugs Fund List. The latest version (v1.386) was uploaded to the NHS England Website on Wednesday 11, February 2026.

The following changes have been introduced:

Durvalumab with gemcitabine and cisplatin (DUR8)

For neoadjuvant treatment then alone for adjuvant treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer where the following criteria have been met

Recommended for routine commissioning, receiving CDF interim funding

Avelumab in combination with axitinib (AVE3)

For use in treatment-naïve patients with advanced, favourable risk, renal cell carcinoma where the following criteria have been met

Moved into routine commissioning - section B of list

Durvalumab (DUR7)

Durvalumab monotherapy for patients with limited- stage small cell lung cancer whose disease has not progressed following platinum-based chemoradiotherapy where the following criteria have been met

Moved into routine commissioning - section B of list

Lorlatinib monotherapy (LOR2)

Lorlatinib monotherapy for anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive advanced non- small cell lung cancer previously untreated with an ALK inhibitor where the following criteria have been met

Moved into routine commissioning - section B of list

Nivolumab (NIV25)

Nivolumab plus chemotherapy for neoadjuvant treatment and then continued as adjuvant monotherapy in adults with previously untreated UICC/AJCC 8th edition stage IIA or IIB or IIIA or N2 only IIIB non- small cell lung cancer AND who are candidates for potentially curative surgery where the following criteria have been met

Date moving into routine commissioning updated

Abiraterone In combination with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) (ABI4)

For the treatment of newly diagnosed high risk metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer where the following criteria have been met

Treatment criterion (#6) updated

Bevacizumab with FIRST LINE fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy (BEV11)

For metastatic or locally advanced and inoperable colorectal cancer where the following criteria have been met

Treatment criterion (#4) updated

NA (NIV9)

NA

Treatment criterion (#8) updated

Pomalidomide (POM1)

Pomalidomide for multiple myeloma previously treated with lenalidomide and bortezomib

Treatment criterion (#6) updated

Belantamab mafodotin in combination with bortezomib and dexamethasone (BELA1)

Belantamab mafodotin in combination with bortezomib and dexamethasone as 2nd line treatment of relapsed or refractory myeloma in adult patients who previously received lenalidomide as part of 1st line systemic therapy where the following criteria have been met

Spelling of drug name corrected to Belantamab mafodotin

Belantamab mafodotin with pomalidomide and dexamethasone (BELA2)

Belantamab mafodotin with pomalidomide and dexamethasone as 2nd line treatment of relapsed or refractory myeloma in adult patients who previously received lenalidomide as part of 1st line systemic therapy where the following criteria have been met

Spelling of drug name corrected to Belantamab mafodotin

 

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