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Recruiting Phase 2

Phase II Randomised Controlled Trial of Patient-specific Adaptive vs. Continuous Abiraterone or eNZalutamide in mCRPC

NCT05393791 · tracked via the Priya Life Science Netherlands tracker
Phase
Phase 2
Started
2022-11-10
Last updated
2024-11-26

Condition(s) studied

Prostatic Neoplasms, Castration-Resistant

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Patient-specific adaptive therapyAbiraterone acetate →Enzalutamide →

Patient-specific adaptive therapy: Patients will start taking abiraterone or enzalutamide (AA/ENZ) daily. PSA will be measured every month as well as radiological evaluation by CT-scan and bone scan. Treatment will be continued until PSA has dropped \>50%. The treatment will then be paused. Once the PSA has risen again above the pretreatment baseline, treatment will be re-initiated. AA/ENZ will be stopped again after the PSA declines \>50% from the baseline. This will be continued until criteria for treatment failure are met (death by any cause or at least 2 out of 3 of the following events while on treatment: radiographic progression on CT-scan and/or bone scan, PSA progression or clinical progression).

Abiraterone acetate: Use of abiraterone or enzalutamide

Enzalutamide: Use of abiraterone or enzalutamide

Study summary

Hormone tablets, abiraterone (Zytiga®) and enzalutamide (Xtandi®) are approved to treat advanced prostate cancer. However, even if these drugs are helpful, their effectiveness usually diminishes over time. Small pilot studies have indicated that using hormone tablets sparingly, for just long enough to control the cancer, followed by a break in treatment and restarting them later, seems to improve how long hormone tablets can control the cancer. This study aims to find out if this pause/restart strategy is better than taking hormone tablets every day continuously. The study will include 168 people with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer in the Netherlands and Australia. Patients will be randomly 1:1 assigned between the control group and the experimental group. In the control group, patients will take the treatment with AA/ENZ every day until the prostate cancer doesn't respond anymore to the treatment. In the experimental group, patients will start with daily AA/ENZ until the PSA has declined for \>50%. The treatment will then be paused and monthly PSA measurements will be performed. The treatment will be re-initiated when the PSA has increased to the level of before starting treatment. The treatment will be continued daily until the PSA has again dropped for \>50%. This pause/restart cycle will be repeated until the prostate cancer doesn't respond anymore to the treatment.

Eligibility

Sex
MALE
Min age
18 Years
Max age
—
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Willing and able to provide informed consent; 2. Aged 18 or older; 3. Histologically or cytologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate; 4. Ongoing androgen deprivation therapy with a GnRH analogue or bilateral orchiectomy (i.e. surgical or medical castration with testosterone at screening ≤1.7 nmol/L (\<0.5 ng/mL)); patients who have not had a bilateral orchiectomy, must have a plan to maintain effective GnRH-analogue therapy for the duration of the trial; 5. Presence of metastatic disease on WBBS and/or CT-scan; 6. Progressive disease at study entry defined as per PCWG3 as one or more of the following criteria that occurred while the patient was on ADT: 1. PSA progression defined by a minimum of 2 rising PSA levels with an interval of ≥1 week between each determination. Patients who received an anti-androgen must have progression after withdrawal (≥4 weeks since last flutamide or ≥6 weeks since last bicalutamide or nilutamide); OR 2. Radiographic PD on bone scintigraphy and/or CT-scan; 7. A PSA concentration of ≥2 ng/mL. 8. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-2; 9. Controlled symptoms (opioids for cancer related pain stable for \>4 weeks, no need for urgent radiotherapy for symptomatic lesions); 10. Estimated life expectancy of ≥12 months; 11. Patient has archival prostate cancer tissue available and which he consents to share or is willing to undergo a new tumour biopsy; 12. Adequate organ function: absolute neutrophil count \> 1,500/μL (\> 1.5\*109/L); platelet count \> 100,000/μL (\> 100\*109/L), haemoglobin \> 90 g/L; total bilirubin \< 1.5 times ULN, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) \< 3 times ULN; creatinine \< 175 μmol/L; albumin \> 30 g/L; 13. Any other therapies for CRPC (excluding denosumab and bisphosphonates) have to be discontinued 3 weeks prior to study randomisation; 14. Able to swallow the study drug and comply with study requirements. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Life-threatening or serious medical or psychiatric illness that could, in investigator's opinion, potentially interfere with participation in this study; 2. Diagnosis or treatment for another systemic malignancy within 2 years before the first dose of study drugs. Potential participants with non-melanoma skin cancer, non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, or carcinoma in situ of any type are allowed if they have undergone complete resection; 3. Known or suspected brain metastasis or leptomeningeal disease; 4. Small-cell or neuroendocrine differentiation of prostate cancer; 5. Radiation therapy for treatment of the primary tumour within 3 weeks of screening visit; 6. Radiation or radionuclide therapy for treatment of metastasis within 3 weeks of screening visit, excluding radiation to reduce pain symptoms; 7. History of uncontrolled seizures (if patient and investigator wish to choose treatment with enzalutamide) 8. Unstable symptomatic ischemic heart disease, ongoing arrhythmias or New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III or IV heart failure; 9. Known HIV infection, active chronic hepatitis B or C; 10. Known gastrointestinal (GI) disease that could interfere with GI absorption/tolerance of study drugs; 11. Prior treatments with CYP17 inhibitors (e.g. ketoconazole) or novel androgen receptor inhibitors (e.g. abiraterone, apalutamide, darolutamide or enzalutamide). Bicalutamide and nilutamide should be stopped \>6 weeks before screening visit. Prior treatment with docetaxel in the mHSPC setting is allowed. 12. Any condition or reason that, in the opinion of the Investigator, interferes with the ability of the patient to participate in the trial, which places the patient at undue risk, or complicates the interpretation of safety data.

Primary outcome measure(s)

  • Time to treatment failure — Time from randomization until death by any cause, or until criteria for treatment failure are met. PSA progression and clinical progression will be measured every 4 weeks, radiographic progression every 12 weeks, both up to 3 years after randomization.
    Defined as the time from randomization until death by any cause, or the occurrence of ≥2 of the following events: * Radiographic progression according to RECIST 1.1 and/or PWCG3 criteria on the CT-scan and/or WBBS while a subject received treatment with AA/ENZ during the whole period between the imaging tests. NB: Radiologic progression while a subject is off treatment in the experimental arm will trigger the endpoint, but may be an indication to restart treatment and continue with the adaptive dosing strategy * PSA progression, defined as an increase of PSA of \>25% and \>2 ng/mL occurring while a patient is on consecutive treatment with AA/ENZ for at least 8 weeks. * Clinical progression in the judgment of the treating clinician occurring while a patient is on consecutive treatment with AA/ENZ for at least 8 weeks.

Trial sites (19)

FacilityCityRegionStatus
Border Medical Oncology Research Unit / The Border Cancer Hospital Albury New South Wales Recruiting
Chris O'Brien Lifehouse Camperdown New South Wales Recruiting
St George Hospital Kogarah New South Wales Recruiting
Calvary Mater Newcastle Newcastle New South Wales Recruiting
Genesis Care North Shore St Leonards New South Wales Recruiting
Sydney Adventist Hospital Wahroonga New South Wales Recruiting
Sunshine Coast University Hospital Birtinya Queensland Recruiting
Mater Hospital Brisbane South Brisbane Queensland Recruiting
Royal Adelaide Hospital Adelaide South Australia Recruiting
ICON Cancer Centre Adelaide South Australia Recruiting
Eastern Health Box Hill Box Hill Victoria Recruiting
Fiona Stanly Hospital Murdoch Western Australia Recruiting
Radboud Univeristy Medical Centre Nijmegen Gelderland Recruiting
Spaarne Gasthuis Hoofddorp North Holland Recruiting
Isala Ziekenhuis Zwolle Overijssel Recruiting
Groene Hart Ziekenhuis Gouda South Holland Recruiting
Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum Leiden South Holland Recruiting
Meander Medical Centre Amersfoort Utrecht Recruiting
University Medical Center Groningen Groningen Netherlands Recruiting
Official registry record

This page summarises publicly available registry data for informational purposes — not medical advice. Eligibility is determined by each study team; patients should discuss participation with their clinician.

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