Adjuvant chemotherapy have shown little evidence of survival benefit in patients with stages IB non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after complete resection. Epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) show great efficacy in patients with EGFR mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Icotinib is a novel EGFR-TKI developed by a group of Chinese scientists and clinician. In the phase III ICOGEN trial, icotinib had non-inferiority efficacy to gefitinib with better safety. This study is studying icotinib to see how well it works in treating patients with fully resected stage IB NSCLC harboring EGFR mutation.
This phase II trial studies how well icotinib works in treating patients with completely resected stage IB NSCLC harboring EGFR mutation.