This medicine, selpercatinib, is for a specific type of lung cancer, a type of thyroid cancer, and some other cancer types where there’s a RET alteration. Selpercatinib is a selective RET kinase inhibitor—it keeps RET kinase from doing its thing. You can get selpercatinib in 2 different strengths, like 40 milligrams or 80 milligrams, in.
They usually tell you to take 160 mg twice a day. It doesn’t matter if you have it with food or not. Each bottle of selpercatinib has 60 capsules in it.
Selpercatinib, the main stuff in the capsules, comes in a tablet that you take by mouth.
