Trametinib’s job is to stop a protein called MEK from working. It’s really good at fighting a type of skin cancer and a kind of lung cancer with specific changes. It comes in tablets with two sizes, either 0.5 mg or 2 mg.
Doctors usually suggest taking 2 mg of it every day, on an empty stomach if possible. You’ll find these tablets in bottles with 30 in each. How it works is by blocking a pathway that helps cancer cells with those mutations grow and split.
It’s key for people to stick with the dose their doc tells them, and not change it on their own.
