So Alectinib is a kind of medicine that blocks something called the ALK tyrosine kinase. It’s used to treat a type of lung cancer called anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive NSCLC. You should take Alectinib at 600 mg, and do it twice a day, but you need to eat something when you take it.
Alectinib comes in 150 mg capsules. A bottle holds 240 of them. The way this drug works is by stopping the ALK signaling pathway, which is a key part of how this cancer grows and spreads.
You’ve got to take Alectinib just like your doctor tells you to. You’ve got to take these capsules whole with a glass of water, no opening or chewing allowed. Studies have shown that Alectinib helps people live longer without the cancer growing and even overall survival times.
