Regulatory approval

Published by the Health Service Executive.

The Republic of Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) has approved ponatinib for reimbursement as a monotherapy treatment option for the treatment of adult patients with chronic phase, accelerated phase, or blast phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) who are resistant to dasatinib or nilotinib; who are intolerant to dasatinib, nilotinib, and bosutinib and for whom subsequent treatment with imatinib is not clinically appropriate; or who have the T315I mutation.

This is written in the approval document as:

Treatment of adult patients with chronic phase, accelerated phase, or blast phase chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) who are resistant to dasatinib or nilotinib; who are intolerant to dasatinib, nilotinib and bosutinib and for whom subsequent treatment with imatinib is not clinically appropriate; or who have the T315I mutation.

Citation

PONATinib Therapy, 2021, version number 3, NCCP National SACT Regimen, NCCP, viewed 26/03/2026, https://healthservice.hse.ie/documents/6954/302_v3a_Ponatinib.pdf

Therapeutic response

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

Organization(s) Biomarker(s) Cancer type Therapy(ies)
HSE (1) ABL1 p.T315I Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Ponatinib