What is BEQALZI?
BEQALZI is a medicine called a BCL-2 inhibitor. It is used to treat adults with MCL that has come back or did not respond to at least two previous treatments, including a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor.
BCL=B-cell lymphoma; MCL=mantle cell lymphoma.
(bee-KAHL-zee)
(son-ROE-toe-klax)
How does BEQALZI work?
In MCL, cancer cells make too much of a protein called BCL-2. When this happens, the cancer cells survive and grow.
As a BCL-2 inhibitor, BEQALZI:
Binds to the BCL-2 protein
Results in cancer cells self-destructing
(a natural process called apoptosis)
Is not chemotherapy