ILCN Lung Cancer News
ILCN Lung Cancer News


  • Afatinib Outperforms Gefitinib in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Afatinib Outperforms Gefitinib in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Systemic, Targeted, & Immune Therapies

    By Erik J. MacLaren, PhD The pan-ErbB inhibitor afatinib (Gilotrif) improves progression-free survival (PFS), time-to-treatment-failure (TTF) rate, and objective response rate (ORR) compared to the first-generation EGFR inhibitor gefitinib (Iressa) as a first-line treatment in patients with EGFR mutation-positive NSCLC, according to results presented at the ESMO Asia 2015 Congress in Singapore.1 Afatinib and gefitinib…