HOW ZYKADIA MAY HELP
Overall response and duration of response
In a clinical trial, ZYKADIA was shown to shrink or slow the growth of tumors. In this trial, 163 patients with ALK+ metastatic NSCLC who had taken the medicine crizotinib, but their NSCLC worsened or they could not tolerate taking crizotinib, were treated with ZYKADIA.
Of those who responded, 1.2% of patients had a complete response to treatment (which is not the same as being cured) and 53.4% of patients had a partial response. This means that in these patients the amount or spread of cancer decreased or tumors shrank. Response to treatment lasted a median of 7.4 months.