AZD9291 Versus Gefitinib or Erlotinib in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Summary

To assess the efficacy and safety of AZD9291 versus a standard of care epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor in patients with locally advanced or Metastatic Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Timeline

Start

2014-12-03

Primary completion

2017-06-19

Completion

2025-11-20

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

registry analysis (superiority test); Osimertinib 80 mg (Global Cohort) vs SoC EGFR-TKI (Global Cohort); p <0.0001; Hazard Ratio (HR) 0.46 (95% CI 0.37 to 0.57) NCT02296125 ↗

paper The median progression-free survival was significantly longer with osimertinib than with standard EGFR-TKIs PMID 29151359 ↗

release “The FLAURA trial met its primary endpoint in July 2017, showing a statistically-significant and clinically-meaningful improvement in progression-free survival (PFS)” astrazeneca.com ↗

Publications

• Markovets A, Merino Vega D, Abbosh C, Quinn K, Chang K, Wienke S, Hartmaier R, Barrett JC, Hodgson D. Variability of Circulating Tumor DNA Levels in Plasma Samples From Patients With Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer in the Absence of Treatment. JCO Precis Oncol. 2025 Oct;9:e2500287. doi: 10.1200/PO-25-00287. Epub 2025 Oct 30.
• Murat-Onana ML, Ramalingam SS, Janne PA, Gray JE, Ahn MJ, John T, Yatabe Y, Huang X, Rukazenkov Y, Javey M, Brown H, Li-Sucholeiki X. EGFR mutation testing across the osimertinib clinical program. Lung Cancer. 2025 Jun;204:108549. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2025.108549. Epub 2025 Apr 18.
• Gray JE, Markovets A, Reungwetwattana T, Majem M, Nogami N, Peled N, Lee JS, Cho BC, Chewaskulyong B, John T, Han JY, Sebastian M, Todd A, Rukazenkov Y, Barrett C, Chmielecki J, Lee SM, Ramalingam SS, Hartmaier R. Longitudinal Analyses of Circulating Tumor DNA for the Detection of EGFR Mutation-Positive Advanced NSCLC Progression During Treatment: Data From FLAURA and AURA3. J Thorac Oncol. 2024 Nov;19(11):1525-1538. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2024.07.008. Epub 2024 Jul 17.
• Viray H, Piper-Vallillo AJ, Widick P, Academia E, Shea M, Rangachari D, VanderLaan PA, Kobayashi SS, Costa DB. A Real-World Study of Patient Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes in EGFR Mutated Lung Cancer Treated with First-Line Osimertinib: Expanding the FLAURA Trial Results into Routine Clinical Practice. Cancers (Basel). 2024 Mar 7;16(6):1079. doi: 10.3390/cancers16061079.
• Johnson M, Serra Traynor C, Vishwanathan K, Overend P, Hartmaier R, Markovets A, Chmielecki J, Mugundu GM, Barrett JC, Tomkinson H, Ramalingam SS. Longitudinal Circulating Tumor DNA Modeling to Predict Disease Progression in First-Line Mutant Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2024 Feb;115(2):349-360. doi: 10.1002/cpt.3113. Epub 2023 Dec 21.
• Walding A, Skaltsa K, Casamayor M, Ryden A. Time to deterioration of patient-reported outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer: exploring different definitions. Qual Life Res. 2022 Aug;31(8):2535-2543. doi: 10.1007/s11136-022-03088-0. Epub 2022 Jan 31.
• Cheng Y, He Y, Li W, Zhang HL, Zhou Q, Wang B, Liu C, Walding A, Saggese M, Huang X, Fan M, Wang J, Ramalingam SS. Osimertinib Versus Comparator EGFR TKI as First-Line Treatment for EGFR-Mutated Advanced NSCLC: FLAURA China, A Randomized Study. Target Oncol. 2021 Mar;16(2):165-176. doi: 10.1007/s11523-021-00794-6. Epub 2021 Feb 5.
• Leighl NB, Karaseva N, Nakagawa K, Cho BC, Gray JE, Hovey T, Walding A, Ryden A, Novello S. Patient-reported outcomes from FLAURA: Osimertinib versus erlotinib or gefitinib in patients with EGFR-mutated advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. Eur J Cancer. 2020 Jan;125:49-57. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2019.11.006. Epub 2019 Dec 12.
• Ramalingam SS, Vansteenkiste J, Planchard D, Cho BC, Gray JE, Ohe Y, Zhou C, Reungwetwattana T, Cheng Y, Chewaskulyong B, Shah R, Cobo M, Lee KH, Cheema P, Tiseo M, John T, Lin MC, Imamura F, Kurata T, Todd A, Hodge R, Saggese M, Rukazenkov Y, Soria JC; FLAURA Investigators. Overall Survival with Osimertinib in Untreated, EGFR-Mutated Advanced NSCLC. N Engl J Med. 2020 Jan 2;382(1):41-50. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1913662. Epub 2019 Nov 21.
• Brown H, Vansteenkiste J, Nakagawa K, Cobo M, John T, Barker C, Kohlmann A, Todd A, Saggese M, Chmielecki J, Markovets A, Scott M, Ramalingam SS. Programmed Cell Death Ligand 1 Expression in Untreated EGFR Mutated Advanced NSCLC and Response to Osimertinib Versus Comparator in FLAURA. J Thorac Oncol. 2020 Jan;15(1):138-143. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2019.09.009. Epub 2019 Oct 9.
• Gray JE, Okamoto I, Sriuranpong V, Vansteenkiste J, Imamura F, Lee JS, Pang YK, Cobo M, Kasahara K, Cheng Y, Nogami N, Cho EK, Su WC, Zhang G, Huang X, Li-Sucholeiki X, Lentrichia B, Dearden S, Jenkins S, Saggese M, Rukazenkov Y, Ramalingam SS. Tissue and Plasma EGFR Mutation Analysis in the FLAURA Trial: Osimertinib versus Comparator EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor as First-Line Treatment in Patients with EGFR-Mutated Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Nov 15;25(22):6644-6652. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-1126. Epub 2019 Aug 22.
• Planchard D, Boyer MJ, Lee JS, Dechaphunkul A, Cheema PK, Takahashi T, Gray JE, Tiseo M, Ramalingam SS, Todd A, McKeown A, Rukazenkov Y, Ohe Y. Postprogression Outcomes for Osimertinib versus Standard-of-Care EGFR-TKI in Patients with Previously Untreated EGFR-mutated Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Apr 1;25(7):2058-2063. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-3325. Epub 2019 Jan 18.
• Ohe Y, Imamura F, Nogami N, Okamoto I, Kurata T, Kato T, Sugawara S, Ramalingam SS, Uchida H, Hodge R, Vowler SL, Walding A, Nakagawa K. Osimertinib versus standard-of-care EGFR-TKI as first-line treatment for EGFRm advanced NSCLC: FLAURA Japanese subset. Jpn J Clin Oncol. 2019 Jan 1;49(1):29-36. doi: 10.1093/jjco/hyy179.
• Soria JC, Ohe Y, Vansteenkiste J, Reungwetwattana T, Chewaskulyong B, Lee KH, Dechaphunkul A, Imamura F, Nogami N, Kurata T, Okamoto I, Zhou C, Cho BC, Cheng Y, Cho EK, Voon PJ, Planchard D, Su WC, Gray JE, Lee SM, Hodge R, Marotti M, Rukazenkov Y, Ramalingam SS; FLAURA Investigators. Osimertinib in Untreated EGFR-Mutated Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2018 Jan 11;378(2):113-125. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1713137. Epub 2017 Nov 18.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Comparator	Erlotinib	Small molecule	150 mg	Oral
Comparator	Gefitinib	Small molecule	250 mg	Oral
Subject	Osimertinib	Small molecule	80 mg	Oral

Indications

No indication recorded.