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

Last updated: November 25, 2024
Sponsor: Leiden University Medical Center
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

2

Condition

Prostate Cancer, Early, Recurrent

Prostate Cancer

Urologic Cancer

Treatment

Patient-specific adaptive therapy

Abiraterone acetate

Enzalutamide

Clinical Study ID

NCT05393791
79835
ANZUP 2101
  • Ages > 18
  • Male

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 Criteria

Inclusion

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 planto 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 thefollowing criteria that occurred while the patient was on ADT:

  7. 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 musthave progression after withdrawal (≥4 weeks since last flutamide or ≥6 weekssince last bicalutamide or nilutamide); OR

  8. Radiographic PD on bone scintigraphy and/or CT-scan;

  9. A PSA concentration of ≥2 ng/mL.

  10. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-2;

  11. Controlled symptoms (opioids for cancer related pain stable for >4 weeks, no needfor urgent radiotherapy for symptomatic lesions);

  12. Estimated life expectancy of ≥12 months;

  13. Patient has archival prostate cancer tissue available and which he consents to shareor is willing to undergo a new tumour biopsy;

  14. Adequate organ function: absolute neutrophil count > 1,500/μL (> 1.5109/L);platelet count > 100,000/μL (> 100109/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;

  15. Any other therapies for CRPC (excluding denosumab and bisphosphonates) have to bediscontinued 3 weeks prior to study randomisation;

  16. Able to swallow the study drug and comply with study requirements.

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Life-threatening or serious medical or psychiatric illness that could, ininvestigator's opinion, potentially interfere with participation in this study;

  2. Diagnosis or treatment for another systemic malignancy within 2 years before thefirst 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 ifthey 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 screeningvisit;

  6. Radiation or radionuclide therapy for treatment of metastasis within 3 weeks ofscreening visit, excluding radiation to reduce pain symptoms;

  7. History of uncontrolled seizures (if patient and investigator wish to choosetreatment with enzalutamide)

  8. Unstable symptomatic ischemic heart disease, ongoing arrhythmias or New York HeartAssociation (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 GIabsorption/tolerance of study drugs;

  11. Prior treatments with CYP17 inhibitors (e.g. ketoconazole) or novel androgenreceptor inhibitors (e.g. abiraterone, apalutamide, darolutamide or enzalutamide).Bicalutamide and nilutamide should be stopped >6 weeks before screening visit. Priortreatment with docetaxel in the mHSPC setting is allowed.

  12. Any condition or reason that, in the opinion of the Investigator, interferes withthe ability of the patient to participate in the trial, which places the patient atundue risk, or complicates the interpretation of safety data.

Study Design

Total Participants: 168
Treatment Group(s): 3
Primary Treatment: Patient-specific adaptive therapy
Phase: 2
Study Start date:
November 10, 2022
Estimated Completion Date:
November 10, 2027

Study Description

Abiraterone and enzalutamide (AA/ENZ) are drugs which are being used to treat metastatic prostate cancer. These drugs are a form of additional hormonal therapy and have been used for many years. For most patients, these drugs work well and the prostate cancer stays under control for several months to years. In all patients, there will be a moment when the prostate cancer doesn't respond anymore to the treatment. This is called resistance. This leads to increasement of PSA, tumor growth on the CT-scan and/or bone scan or decline of condition. The investigators want to establish if it is possible to delay the development of resistance by using the drugs differently. It is now recommended to use AA/ENZ daily until the prostate cancer doesn't respond anymore to the treatment. During treatment, all cancer cells sensitive to treatment will die and all cells resistant for treatment will survive. Based on evolutionary principles, this might not be a wise strategy. The groups of resistant cancer cells will prevail and will grow faster and faster. This will lead to increasement of PSA, tumor growth on the CT-scan and/or bone scan or decline of condition. The investigators want to establish if it is better to not take the treatment drugs daily, but to pause the treatment on regular basis. The theory of the investigators is that, due to just in time pausing the treatment, a part of the treatment sensitive cells will remain alive. These treatment sensitive cancer cells will compete with the treatment resistant cells for limited space and nutrients. In this way, the treatment sensitive cancer cells prevent the accelerating growth of the treatment resistant cancer cells. Due to this phenomenon, the investigator hypothesis is the prostate cancer will respond longer to treatment. It will take longer until a new treatment is necessary or until a patients develops complaints. When the treatment is paused, patients might experience less side effects. It is easy to establish whether the prostate cancer responds to treatment by measuring PSA.

Connect with a study center

  • Border Medical Oncology Research Unit / The Border Cancer Hospital

    Albury, New South Wales 2460
    Australia

    Active - Recruiting

  • Chris O'Brien Lifehouse

    Camperdown, New South Wales 2050
    Australia

    Active - Recruiting

  • St George Hospital

    Kogarah, New South Wales
    Australia

    Active - Recruiting

  • Calvary Mater Newcastle

    Newcastle, New South Wales 2298
    Australia

    Active - Recruiting

  • Genesis Care North Shore

    St Leonards, New South Wales 2065
    Australia

    Active - Recruiting

  • Sydney Adventist Hospital

    Wahroonga, New South Wales 2076
    Australia

    Active - Recruiting

  • Sunshine Coast University Hospital

    Birtinya, Queensland
    Australia

    Active - Recruiting

  • Mater Hospital Brisbane

    South Brisbane, Queensland 4101
    Australia

    Active - Recruiting

  • ICON Cancer Centre

    Adelaide, South Australia
    Australia

    Active - Recruiting

  • Royal Adelaide Hospital

    Adelaide, South Australia 5000
    Australia

    Active - Recruiting

  • Eastern Health Box Hill

    Box Hill, Victoria
    Australia

    Active - Recruiting

  • Fiona Stanly Hospital

    Murdoch, Western Australia 6150
    Australia

    Active - Recruiting

  • Radboud Univeristy Medical Centre

    Nijmegen, Gelderland 6525 GA
    Netherlands

    Active - Recruiting

  • Spaarne Gasthuis

    Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland 2134 TM
    Netherlands

    Active - Recruiting

  • Isala Ziekenhuis

    Zwolle, Overijssel 8025 AB
    Netherlands

    Active - Recruiting

  • Meander Medical Centre

    Amersfoort, Utrecht 3813 TZ
    Netherlands

    Active - Recruiting

  • Groene Hart Ziekenhuis

    Gouda, Zuid-Holland 2803 HH
    Netherlands

    Active - Recruiting

  • Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum

    Leiden, Zuid-Holland 2333 ZA
    Netherlands

    Active - Recruiting

  • University Medical Center Groningen

    Groningen, 9713 GZ
    Netherlands

    Active - Recruiting

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