In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Jacob Sands, MD, medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the ...

The selection of a first-line treatment for patients with advanced EGFR -positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has become increasingly complex in recent years with available options now ...

Osimertinib (Tagrisso) has a strong foothold as first-line therapy for patients with advanced EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but resistance to the third-generation EGFR tyrosine ...

CHICAGO — Adjuvant osimertinib conferred a significant OS benefit vs. placebo among patients with resected, EGFR-mutant, stage IB to IIIA non-small cell lung cancer, according to results of the ...

AstraZeneca Plc (NASDAQ:AZN) released high-level results from the final overall survival (OS) analysis of the FLAURA2 Phase 3 ...

Positive high-level results from the final overall survival (OS) analysis of the FLAURA2 Phase III trial showed AstraZeneca’s TAGRISSO® (osimertinib) with the addition of pemetrexed and platinum-based ...

Osimertinib has been approved since February 2016 for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) T790M mutation-positive non-small ...

First-line osimertinib improved OS compared with standard-of-care epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors among patients with previously untreated advanced EGFR-mutated non ...

Osimertinib (Tagrisso) demonstrated promising clinical activity as first-line treatment for patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with uncommon EGFR mutations, the ...

Osimertinib (Tagrisso, AstraZeneca) cemented its role as front-line treatment of epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated (EGFRm) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in last year's FLAURA trial.

Osimertinib, sold under the brand name Tagrisso, is available to patients with Stage 1B-3A lung cancer who have a certain genetic mutation and have had surgery to remove cancerous tumors.

Osimertinib improved progression-free survival by 54%. This subset analysis included the 322 Asian patients in the FLAURA trial, of whom 46 were Chinese, 120 were Japanese, and 156 were from other ...