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Is BALVERSA® Right for You? | BALVERSA® (erdafitinib)

Is BALVERSA® Right for You?

  1. About BALVERSA®
  2. Is BALVERSA® Right for You?

BALVERSA® is an oral prescription medicine used to treat adults who:

  • Icon of a blue bladder with green liquid insideHave bladder cancer (urothelial cancer) that has spread or cannot be removed by surgery
  • Blue double helix icon, Abnormal F G F R geneHave a tumor that carries a certain type of abnormal FGFR gene
  • Icon of a blue cancer cell surrounded by green arrows pointing outwardsHave tried at least one other chemotherapy medicine that contains platinum, and it did not work or is no longer working

Your doctor will perform a test to check for certain types of abnormal FGFR genes, and make sure that BALVERSA® is right for you.

How can I find out if my tumor has an abnormal FGFR gene?

A doctor will send a tissue sample from the tumor to a lab for analysis.

BALVERSA® was studied in people whose tumors had an abnormal FGFR gene

BALVERSA® was studied in 87 people with advanced bladder cancer who had tried at least 1 chemotherapy. Learn more about the BALVERSA® study.

How BALVERSA® works

BALVERSA® is the first medicine of its kind approved by the FDA to treat people with advanced bladder cancer where the tumor carries a certain abnormal FGFR gene

How does BALVERSA® work?