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Would you consider omitting concurrent chemoradiation for a patient with stage III EGFR-mutant NSCLC and initiating treatment with osimertinib instead?

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Radiation Oncology · Yale School of Medicine

No. Osimertinib alone is a palliative treatment with limited durability, which is not appropriate as first-line therapy for a patient who is interested in and eligible for definitive treatment. While the outcomes of the control arm of chemoradiotherapy without osimertinib in the LAURA trial were cer...

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Radiation Oncology · UCLA | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

I would not. The results generated in the winning arm of the LAURA trial were not achieved with osimertinib alone. It was achieved with CRT followed by osimertinib.

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