Amivantamab plus Lazertinib in Previously Untreated <i>EGFR</i> -Mutated Advanced NSCLC
Authors: Byoung C Cho, Shun Lu, Enriqueta Felip, Alexander I Spira, Nicolas Girard, Jong-Seok Lee, Se-Hoon Lee, Yurii Ostapenko, Pongwut Danchaivijitr, Baogang Liu, Adlinda Alip, Ernesto Korbenfeld, Josiane Mourão Dias, Benjamin Besse, Ki-Hyeong Lee, Hailin Xiong, Soon-Hin How, Ying Cheng, Gee-Chen Chang, Hiroshige Yoshioka, James C-H Yang, Michael Thomas, Danny Nguyen, Sai-Hong I Ou, Sanjay Mukhedkar, Kumar Prabhash, Manolo D'Arcangelo, Jorge Alatorre-Alexander, Juan C Vázquez Limón, Sara Alves, Daniil Stroyakovskiy, Marina Peregudova, Mehmet A N Şendur, Ozan Yazici, Raffaele Califano, Vanesa Gutiérrez Calderón, Filippo de Marinis, Antonio Passaro, Sang-We Kim, Shirish M Gadgeel, John Xie, Tao Sun, Melissa Martinez, Mariah Ennis, Elizabeth Fennema, Mahesh Daksh, Dawn Millington, Isabelle Leconte, Ryota Iwasawa, Patricia Lorenzini, Mahadi Baig, Sujay Shah, Joshua M Bauml, S Martin Shreeve, Seema Sethi, Roland E Knoblauch, Hidetoshi Hayashi
Journal: New England Journal of Medicine (2024)

BackgroundAmivantamab plus lazertinib (amivantamab–lazertinib) has shown clinically meaningful and durable antitumor activity in patients with previously untreated or osimertinib-pretreated EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor)–mutated advanced non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).MethodsIn a phase 3, international, randomized trial, we assigned, in a 2:2:1 ratio, patients with previously untreated EGFR-mutated (exon 19 deletion or L858R), locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC to receive amivantamab–lazertinib (in an open-label fashion), osimertinib (in a blinded fashion), or lazertinib (in a blinded fashion, to assess the contribution of treatment components). The primary end point was progression-free survival in the amivantamab–lazertinib group as compared with the osimertinib group, as assessed by blinded independent central review.ResultsOverall, 1074 patients underwent randomization (429 to amivantamab–lazertinib, 429 to osimertinib, and 216 to lazertinib). The median progression-free survival was significantly longer in the amivantamab–lazertinib group than in the osimertinib group (23.7 vs. 16.6 months; hazard ratio for disease progression or death, 0.70; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.58 to 0.85; P<0.001). An objective response was observed in 86% of the patients (95% CI, 83 to 89) in the amivantamab–lazertinib group and in 85% of those (95% CI, 81 to 88) in the osimertinib group; among patients with a confirmed response (336 in the amivantamab–lazertinib group and 314 in the osimertinib group), the median response duration was 25.8 months (95% CI, 20.1 to could not be estimated) and 16.8 months (95% CI, 14.8 to 18.5), respectively. In a planned interim overall survival analysis of amivantamab–lazertinib as compared with osimertinib, the hazard ratio for death was 0.80 (95% CI, 0.61 to 1.05). Predominant adverse events were EGFR-related toxic effects. The incidence of discontinuation of all agents due to treatment-related adverse events was 10% with amivantamab–lazertinib and 3% with osimertinib.ConclusionsAmivantamab–lazertinib showed superior efficacy to osimertinib as first-line treatment in EGFR-mutated advanced NSCLC. (Funded by Janssen Research and Development; MARIPOSA ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04487080.)