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Fruzaqla (fruquintinib)Cigna

Rectal Cancer

Initial criteria

  • Patient age ≥ 18 years; AND
  • Patient has advanced or metastatic disease; AND
  • Patient meets ONE of the following (i or ii):
  • i. Patient has proficient mismatch repair/microsatellite-stable (pMMR/MSS) disease; OR
  • ii. Patient is ineligible for or progressed on checkpoint inhibitor therapy AND meets ONE of the following (a or b):
  • a) Patient has deficient mismatch repair/microsatellite instability-high (dMMR/MSI-H) disease; OR
  • b) Patient is polymerase epsilon/delta (POLE/POLD1) mutation positive; AND
  • Patient has previously been treated with ALL of the following (i, ii, and iii):
  • i. Fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, and irinotecan-based chemotherapy; AND
  • ii. An anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) agent; AND
  • iii. If tumor is RAS wild-type (KRAS wild-type and NRAS wild-type), patient meets ONE of the following (a or b):
  • a) According to prescriber, anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) therapy is NOT medically appropriate; OR
  • b) Patient has received an anti-EGFR therapy.

Approval duration

1 year