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Genetic Alterations in Locally Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma| BALVERSA® (erdafitinib) HCP

Genetic Alterations in Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma

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Finding actionable genetic alterations

Precision medicine is changing cancer care

The identification of actionable genetic alterations is becoming an essential strategy in the management of advanced cancers. A recent analysis found that nearly half of tumors harbor an actionable target.1*

Targeted agents based on genetic alterations have proven effective in treating subsets of various malignancies, including breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, and melanoma.2-4

5 blue human icons. One has a green crescent with a blue bullseye over it. Targeting F G F R alterations

Specific genetic alterations can guide therapy in urothelial carcinoma

There are actionable genomic targets for certain patients who have progressed during or after first-line platinum-based chemotherapy treatment of metastatic urothelial carcinoma.5 Discover how the first FDA-approved treatment for mUC with susceptible FGFR3 or FGFR2 genetic alterations works.

*Single-arm, open-label study that evaluated the molecular profile of tumors from 843 patients with advanced cancers using high-throughput genomics. The most frequent tumor types included cancers of the digestive system (n=197), lung (n=170), urological system (n=158), breast (n=135), and head and neck (n=111).1

FDA = U.S. Food and Drug Administration; FGFR = fibroblast growth factor receptor.

References

1. Massard C, Michiels S, Ferté C, et al. High-throughput genomics and clinical outcome in hard-to-treat advanced cancers: results of the MOSCATO 01 trial. Cancer Discov. 2017;7(6):586-595. 2. Geyer CE, Forster J, Lindquist D, et al. Lapatinib plus capecitabine for HER2-positive advanced breast cancer. N Engl J Med. 2006;355:2733-2743. 3. Peters S, Camidge DR, Shaw AT, et al. Alectinib versus crizotinib in untreated ALK-positive non–small-cell lung cancer. N Engl J Med. 2017;377:829-838. 4. Chapman PB, Robert C, Larkin J, et al. Vemurafenib in patients with BRAFV600 mutation-positive metastatic melanoma: final overall survival results of the randomized BRIM-3 study. Ann Oncol. 2017;28:2581-2587. 5. BALVERSA® [Prescribing Information]. Horsham, PA: Janssen Biotech, Inc.