ALK Inhibitor Tablets $200

Brigatinib is a medicine that blocks something called the ALK inhibitor, used to treat a type of lung cancer that has spread. It stops cancer cells from growing and spreading by blocking a certain pathway called the ALK signaling. You can get this drug in three strengths – 30, 90, and 180 milligrams – and it comes in a tablet form.

You typically start with 90 mg a day for the first week, then keep it up at 180 mg a day after that. The tablets come in bottles with 30 pills in each. The treatment plan has two parts – the first is to get things going, and the second is to keep it up.