What is afatinib?

Afatinib is a decree drug. It comes as a book you yield by mouth. It’s alone accessible as the brand-name biologic Gilotrif. It’s not accessible as a all-encompassing drug.

Afatinib is used to amusement non-small corpuscle lung blight (NSCLC) that is metastatic. Metastatic agency the blight has advance from your lungs to added locations of your body.

Afatinib is used to amusement non-small corpuscle lung blight (NSCLC) that:

1.is metastatic (spread to added locations of your physique besides your lungs), and

2.has aberrant epidermal advance agency (EGF) receptor genes. These aberrant genes advance the advance of blight cells.