Janssen Biotech Inc. said it has submitted a New Drug Application to the FDA for apalutamide, an investigational, next generation oral androgen receptor inhibitor for men with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Currently, there are no FDA approved treatments for patients with non-metastatic CRPC.
In two back-to-back, all-day meetings, the FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee considered four thorny applications that the agency appeared to have been saving up as a result of the pause in activity that followed President Trump’s return to office.
