FDA approves erdafitinib for locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma

The Food and Drug Administration approved erdafitinib, or Balversa, from J&J’s Janssen Biotech for adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma, or mUC, with susceptible FGFR3 genetic alterations, as determined by an FDA-approved companion diagnostic test, whose disease has progressed on or after at least one line of prior systemic therapy. “Erdafitinib is not recommended for the treatment of patients who are eligible for and have not received prior PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor therapy. This approval amends the indication previously granted under accelerated approval for patients with mUC with susceptible FGFR3 or FGFR2 alterations after prior platinum-containing chemotherapy,” the FDA stated.