FLAURA

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Official title

A Phase III, Double-blind, Randomised Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of AZD9291 Versus a Standard of Care Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor as First Line Treatment in Patients With Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutation Positive, Locally Advanced or Metastatic Non Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Phase

Phase 3

Status

Completed

Conditions

Locally Advanced or Metastatic EGFR Sensitising Mutation Positive Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Interventions

AZD9291 80 mg/40 mg + placebo; Placebo Erlotinib 150/100mg; Placebo Gefitinib 250 mg; Erlotinib 150/100 mg; Gefitinib 250 mg; Placebo AZD9291 80 mg/ 40 mg

Arms

• AZD9291+ placebo · Experimental
• Standard of Care + placebo AZD9291 · Active comparator

Enrollment

674

Primary outcomes

• Median Progression Free Survival (PFS) (Months)
• Percentage of Participants in Progression Free Survival at 6, 12, and 18 Months

Sponsor

AstraZeneca with Parexel

Start

Dec 3, 2014

Primary completion

Jun 19, 2017

Results posted

Yes

Registry record

NCT02296125 · updated Apr 21, 2026

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• 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. PubMed 39029876
• 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. PubMed 38539415
• 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. PubMed 38010260
• Gray JE, Ahn MJ, Oxnard GR, Shepherd FA, Imamura F, Cheng Y, Okamoto I, Cho BC, Lin MC, Wu YL, Majem M, Gautschi O, Boyer M, Bulusu KC, Markovets A, Barrett JC, Hodge R, McKeown A, Hartmaier RJ, Chmielecki J, Papadimitrakopoulou VA, Ramalingam SS. Early Clearance of Plasma Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutations as a Predictor of Outcome on Osimertinib in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer; Exploratory Analysis from AURA3 and FLAURA. Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Sep 1;29(17):3340-3351. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-22-3146. PubMed 37379430
• 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. PubMed 35099678
• 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. PubMed 33544337
• 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. PubMed 31838405
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• 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. PubMed 31605792
• 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. PubMed 31439584
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• 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. PubMed 29151359