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“Progress is sort of stepwise. How do we make things better? And what we see with FLAURA2 is that we do see an improvement in survival – a meaningful improvement in survival.” – Dr. Stephen Liu

Patients whose disease has progressed on osimertinib or other EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) without emergent T790M or other targetable alterations can receive platinum-based chemotherapy with or without amivantamab.

Subcutaneous administration of amivantamab demonstrated noninferiority to IV delivery while potentially offering enhanced patient convenience and reduced healthcare system burden.