AstraZeneca has announced that its epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) Tagrisso (osimertinib) has received approval from the FDA for the first-line treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in patients whose tumours have EGFR mutations, specifically exon 19 deletions or exon 21 L858R mutations, as detected by an FDA-approved test.
Original Article: AZ's Tagrisso gets FDA nod in first-line EGFR-mutated lung cancer