Vemurafenib is a BRAF inhibitor. It’s specifically used for treating a type of melanoma that has the BRAF V600E mutation. It works by stopping BRAF signaling from happening.
You can get the drug in the form of 240 mg tablets with a film coating. You should take 960 mg of the drug, twice a day. It doesn’t matter if you have it with food or not.
The tablets come in bottles, and each bottle has 112 tablets. The drug works by stopping a mutated BRAF protein that’s often too much in melanoma cells, especially the ones with the V600E change. By doing this, it helps to turn down a pathway called MAPK/RAF/MEK/ERK.
This is important for how tumors grow and live on. This drug is part of something called targeted therapy. It’s a way to treat cancer that focuses on specific parts of the cancer, not everything at once.
The idea is to make patients better by fixing the specific genetic problem causing the cancer.
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