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Comment & Response
October 29, 2020

Combination of Osimertinib and Bevacizumab as First-line Treatment for Patients With Metastatic EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancers

Author Affiliations
  • 1The State Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine and Innovative Drug Development, Ministry of Science and Technology, Jiangsu Simcere Diagnostics Co, Ltd, Nanjing, China
JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(12):1982. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.4818

To the Editor We read with interest the Original Investigation from Yu et al1 wherein they reported results of a phase 1/2 trial to assess the effects of the combination of osimertinib and bevacizumab as first-line treatment for patients with metastatic EGFR-mutant lung cancers. However, the 19-month median progression-free survival (PFS) in the study was comparable with the median PFS with osimertinib alone (19 months) in the FLAURA study.2 We wish to put forth the following discussion points.

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