500mg Daily ALK/ROS1/MET Inhibitor Crizotinib 250mg Capsules

Crizotinib is a type of medicine that blocks a protein called a tyrosine kinase. It’s used to treat a kind of lung cancer that has specific ALK or ROS1 gene changes. It stops those protein kinases from working, which are linked to lung cancer growth.

Crizotinib also goes after the MET kinase, which is involved in cancer cell growth. You can get it as capsules, and there are two strengths: 200 and 250 mg. The usual dose is 250 mg, taken two times a day, so that’s 500 mg every day.

You can swallow these capsules with or without eating. Each bottle holds 60 capsules. It’s usually taken with a doctor’s oversight because it affects several protein kinases, and the dose is specific.

You gotta stick to the doc’s instructions to get the most out of it and to handle any side effects. Crizotinib should only be used if the genomic test says so, because it helps figure out if the treatment’s right for you.