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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.

Charu Aggarwal, MD, MPH, of the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center in Philadelphia, H. Jack West, MD, of the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Los Angeles area, and Devika Das, MD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham discuss the distinction between uncommon EGFR mutations and sensitizing mutations, as well as the lack of data on how to treat these patients with tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

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