Skip to main content

Table 1 FDA-approved EGFR TKIs

From: Emerging therapeutic agents for advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Drug

Month/year

Indication

Comments

Erlotinib

May/2013

1st line metastatic EGFR mutant

First generation. Approved 18 November 2004 for 2nd-line metastatic NSCLC. 10 April 2010 maintenance

Gefitinib

July/2015

1st line metastatic EGFR mutant patients

Approved in 2003 as third line, retracted approval 2005

Afatinib

July/2013

1st line metastatic EGFR mutant

Second generation

January/2018

1st line metastatic EGFR non-resistant mutations

Osimertinib

November/2015

EGFR T790M mutation after progressed on EGFR TKI

Third generation. With CNS penetration

April/2018

1st line metastatic EGFR mutant patients

Dacomitinib

September/2018

1st line metastatic EGFR mutant patients

Second generation