Positive ALK

Hi Greengirl, sorry you are in pain with the hip. 
I’m not sure what you are reading, but positive Alk is not a drug.

There are lots of different types of treatment for many different types of lung cancer. Try not to worry about any of this. I know it’s hard waiting for the pet scan results, but it looks like you are worrying about things that probably won’t effect you. 

Hi

I think you may have confused treatment for anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) with a specific lung cancer drug. 

From looking up ALK+, it seems that this is when ALK is  found within tumours of other cancers e,g lung cancer. This is quite rare. The  combination  of ALK+ can cause drug resistance in the treatment of the other cancer.  The drugs being talked about are the ones designed to inhibit the ALK+ drug resistance.

Have a chat with your cancer team, who will be able to explain this far better than I can.

Hope this helps a bit.

Kegsy x