Alecensa Capsules, For Personal, Grade : Medicine Grade

ALECENSA is a prescription medicine used to treat people with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread to other parts of the body (mNSCLC) and is caused by an abnormal anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene. Your healthcare provider will perform a test to make sure that ALECENSA is right for you.

Alecensa is used to treat adults with a type of lung cancer called 'non-small cell lung cancer' ('NSCLC'). It is used if your lung cancer: is 'ALK-positive' - this means your cancer cells have a fault in a gene that makes an enzyme called ALK ('anaplastic lymphoma kinase'), see 'How Alecensa works',