Asciminib is a cancer fighter. It’s used to help people with a type of leukemia called CML, especially when other treatments haven’t worked. It goes after a specific part of a cancer-causing protein, the ABL kinase, which plays a key role in CML.
You take it by mouth. It comes in two strengths: 20 mg and 40 mg pills with a special coating. You’re supposed to take 80 mg of it every day, split up into two doses if that’s what your doctor suggests.
The pills come in bottles with 60 of them in each. It works by blocking a spot on the ABL protein that’s key to keeping cancer cells alive. This messes up the BCR-ABL thing and stops the CML cells from growing and hanging around.
