This is an update of recommendations from the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use on the authorization of new medicines in the European Union, and updates on EU marketing authorization changes recommended by the CHMP.

Advanced breast cancer treatment Enhertu and non-small cell lung cancer and thyroid cancer therapy Retsevmo are set to win conditional marketing authorizations in the EU shortly. The two drugs are among a number of new products that the European Medicines Agency has just recommended for approval.

Health technology assessment body NICE wants Kite to collect more evidence to prove that Tecartus can cure relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma. But in the meantime, it says the CAR-T therapy should be made available on the National Health Service, making UK patients among the first in the world to be offered access to the treatment.