This is a special treatment for non-small cell lung cancer patients who have this EGFR T790M mutation thing. It’s like a smart little blocker that goes after a specific part of the EGFR protein, which stops cancer cells from growing. There are two different kinds of tablet sizes to choose from—40 milligrams and 80 milligrams.
Most people take the bigger 80-mg pill once every day, whether you’ve eaten or not is up to you. These tabs have a coating to make them easier to swallow, and each bottle has 30 of them. So Osimertinib is this newer, second-generation drug thing that’s made to deal with those, you know, after the first ones don’t work.
This med is for folks whose cancer got worse when they were on a kind of drug for this EGFR kinase or who have a specific kind of change in their NSCLC cancer.
