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Should we consider radiation therapy for patients with N2 EGFRm NSCLC who will receive osimertinib, though RT was excluded on ADAURA?

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Medical Oncology · University of Maryland

For an EGFR-mutant N2 disease, we favor adjuvant chemotherapy (OS benefit) and/or adjuvant TKI based on ADAURA trial (DFS survival). The only prospective data regarding the use of adjuvant radiotherapy comes from a phase III trial, Lung Adjuvant Radiotherapy Trial (Lung-ART), where patients were ran...

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Medical Oncology · University of Michigan Medical School

Regardless of ADAURA or osimertinib, this could be a very easy question to answer given the LungART trial data presented recently at ESMO 2020 and the fact that there has never been a randomized trial of post-operative radiation therapy (PORT) that has demonstrated an overall survival benefit in pat...

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Medical Oncology · Yale Cancer Center At Smilow Cancer Hospital

No, the trial was positive without radiation. The recent Lung ART trial did not show any benefit for post-operative radiation, so I would avoid that.

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Medical Oncology · University of California Los Angeles

The benefit of adjuvant radiation for N2 disease has not been proven with the same level of evidence as the question of adjuvant chemotherapy.

I may be less likely to pursue adjuvant radiation in a patient to get adjuvant osimertinib. However, if an N2+ patient is receiving radiation, I would still...

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