Regulatory approval

Published by the Food and Drug Administration.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval to ceritinib for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors are anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive as detected by an FDA-approved test.

This is written in the approval document as:

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

Citation

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Zykadia (ceritinib) [package insert]. U.S. Food and Drug Administration website. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2021/211225s004lbl.pdf. Revised October 2021. Accessed October 30, 2024.

Therapeutic response

Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.

Type	Biomarker(s)	Cancer type	Therapy(ies)
Sensitivity (+)	v::ALK	Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer	Ceritinib