Ceritinib (Zykadia ) is accepted for use within NHS Scotland...for adult patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) previously treated with crizotinib.

Zykadia is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) positive advanced non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) previously treated with crizotinib.

ZYKADIA is a kinase inhibitor indicated for the treatment of adults with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors are anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive as detected by an FDA-approved test

The NCCN NSCLC Panel recommends ceritinib as a first-line therapy option for patients with ALK-positive metastatic NSCLC...

Ceritinib and alectinib are recommended in patients with ALK-positive advanced NSCLC who progress on treatment with or are intolerant to crizotinib [A¼100% and I, A].

Novartis today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted the Company's supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for filing, and granted Priority Review for the expanded use of Zykadia (ceritinib) as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors are anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive as detected by an FDA-approved test. The FDA also granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to Zykadia for the first-line treatment of patients with ALK+ metastatic NSCLC with metastases to the brain.

...- ALK-positive NSCLC patients with asymptomatic central nervous system (CNS) metastases who are neurologically stable or have...

...Patient has a histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of non-squamous Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that is Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) positive as assessed by the Ventana Immunohistochemistry (IHC) test....

...- Patient must have been pre-identified as having a tumor with an ALK or ROS1 positive mutation, translocation, rearrangement or amplification....

...Patient has a histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that is anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) positive as assessed by the FDA approved Abbott FISH Test....

...- Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of NSCLC that carries an ALK rearrangement defined as positive using the FDA approved Vysis ALK Break Apart FISH Probe Kit (Abbott Molecular Inc.) test and scoring algorithm (including positivity criteria) or positive as assessed by the CFDA approved immunohistochemistry (IHC) test (Ventana Medical Systems, Inc)...

This retrospective study examined data of patients with ALK-positive NSCLC from 18 major hospitals….Crizotinib was the most commonly prescribed ALK inhibitor, followed by alectinib and ceritinib....Patients who received ALK inhibitors as first-line therapy had significantly longer TOT (median of 11 months for first-generation inhibitors, not reached for second-generation inhibitors at the time of analysis) compared to chemotherapy (median of 2 months; P<0.01)....Patients on ALK inhibitors had longer median OS and significantly longer TOT compared to chemotherapy, suggesting long-term benefit.

...whole-body ORRs (95% CI) were 35.7% (21.6-52.0), 30.0% (16.6-46.5), 50.0% (21.1-78.9), and 59.1% (43.2-73.7); whole-body DCR (95% CI): 66.7% (50.5-80.4), 82.5% (67.2-92.7), 66.7% (34.9-90.1), and 70.5% (54.8-83.2); intracranial ORRs (95% CI): 39.3% (21.5-59.4), 27.6% (12.7-47.2), 28.6% (3.7-71.0), and 51.5% (33.5-69.2). In arm 5 (n=18), whole-body ORR was 16.7% (95% CI, 3.6-41.4) and DCR was 66.7% (95% CI, 41.0-86.7). Paired cerebrospinal fluid and plasma sampling revealed that ceritinib penetrated the human blood-brain barrier....Ceritinib showed antitumor activity in patients with ALK+ NSCLC with active brain metastases and/or leptomeningeal disease, and could be considered in the management of intracranial disease.

We evaluated the data of ALK-positive metastatic NSCLC patients...Patients had received alectinib (53%), crizotinib (44.1%), and ceritinib (2.9%) as ALK inhibitor. The response ratio (complete and partial) was 66.2%.

Ceritinib was well tolerated and showed durable responses in Chinese patients with ALK+ NSCLC who progressed after crizotinib and ≤2 prior lines of chemotherapy.

Asian pts with ALK+ advanced/metastatic NSCLC treated with ceritinib...showed numerically higher efficacy and less GI toxicity…

The treatment of ceritinib 450 mg with food for Chinese ALK-positive NSCLC patients had a good safety profile and favorable DCR in real-world setting.

Median rwPFS in patients with advanced ALK+ NSCLC was < 8 months for first- and second-line ALK TKI therapy and was even shorter in patients with brain metastasis, highlighting the need for more effective treatments in this patient population.