diff --git a/src/plugins/intel_gpu/src/plugin/transformations/kv_cache_fusion.cpp b/src/plugins/intel_gpu/src/plugin/transformations/kv_cache_fusion.cpp
index c5961c090334f4..fe1a8c5734924f 100644
--- a/src/plugins/intel_gpu/src/plugin/transformations/kv_cache_fusion.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/intel_gpu/src/plugin/transformations/kv_cache_fusion.cpp
@@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ KVCacheFusionMatcher::KVCacheFusionMatcher() {
             // StridedSlice uses multi-dim for end tensor, extract only the slice dim
             if (has_strided_slice) {
                 const auto strided_slice = ov::as_type_ptr<ov::op::v1::StridedSlice>(concat_node->input_value(0).get_node_shared_ptr());
+                if (!strided_slice)
+                    return false;
                 const auto begin_mask = strided_slice->get_begin_mask();
                 const auto end_mask = strided_slice->get_end_mask();
                 // begin/end mask should be the same and only last element is 0 (being sliced)