Amivantamab plus Chemotherapy in NSCLC with
Publication Title
The New England journal of medicine
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-30-2023
Keywords
Humans; Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung; Disease Progression; ErbB Receptors; Exons; Lung Neoplasms; Mutation; Protein Kinase Inhibitors; Carboplatin; Pemetrexed; Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological; oregon; chiles
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Amivantamab has been approved for the treatment of patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with epidermal growth factor receptor (
METHODS: In this phase 3, international, randomized trial, we assigned in a 1:1 ratio patients with advanced NSCLC with
RESULTS: A total of 308 patients underwent randomization (153 to receive amivantamab-chemotherapy and 155 to receive chemotherapy alone). Progression-free survival was significantly longer in the amivantamab-chemotherapy group than in the chemotherapy group (median, 11.4 months and 6.7 months, respectively; hazard ratio for disease progression or death, 0.40; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.30 to 0.53; P
CONCLUSIONS: The use of amivantamab-chemotherapy resulted in superior efficacy as compared with chemotherapy alone as first-line treatment of patients with advanced NSCLC with
Area of Special Interest
Cancer
Specialty/Research Institute
Oncology
Specialty/Research Institute
Pulmonary Medicine
Specialty/Research Institute
Pharmacy
DOI
10.1056/NEJMoa2306441
