Two-Drug combo targets Hard-to-Treat salivary gland tumors
NCT ID NCT07815522
First seen Sep 11, 2026 · Last updated Sep 11, 2026
Summary
Researchers are testing whether combining abiraterone and dalpiciclib can shrink recurrent or metastatic salivary gland cancer that is AR-positive and HER-2-negative. The trial enrolls up to 36 adults who have no curative surgery or radiation options. Participants take both drugs by mouth in 28-day cycles until the cancer progresses or side effects become unacceptable. The main goal is to measure how many tumors respond to the treatment.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- abiraterone combined with dalpiciclib
- What this could lead to
- If the combination works, it could offer a new treatment option for people with recurrent or metastatic salivary gland cancer that has no curative surgery or radiation option.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, single-arm phase II trial with 36 participants and no control group, so any benefit seen may not hold up in larger studies. The drugs can cause side effects, and the cancer may not respond.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 36 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Oct 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 75 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * \- Aged 18-75 years, male or female; * Patients with histopathologically confirmed salivary gland malignancy of the head and neck: recurrent/metastatic disease without curative-intent therapeutic options (surgery/radiotherapy), or unresectable locally-advanced disease, with at least one measurable lesion (≥10 mm on spiral CT, complying with RECIST version 1.1); * HER-2-negative and AR-positive status determined by immunohistochemistry (IHC); * Availability of evaluable tumor tissue (paraffin-embedded specimen obtained within the past 2 years or fresh tumor tissue); * ECOG performance status of 0 or 1; * Expected survival ≥12 weeks; * Adequate major-organ function within 2 weeks prior to study treatment initiation, meeting the following criteria: * Bone marrow: haemoglobin ≥100 g/L, white blood cell count ≥4.0 × 10⁹/L or absolute neutrophil count ≥2.0 × 10⁹/L, platelet count ≥100 × 10⁹/L, in the absence of transfusion or colony-stimulating factor support; * Liver: total serum bilirubin ≤1.5 × upper limit of normal (ULN); aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤1.5 × ULN; * Kidney: serum creatinine ≤1.5 × ULN OR creatinine clearance ≥60 mL/min; blood urea nitrogen ≤200 mg/L; * Urine protein: negative; if urine protein is 1+, 24-hour total urinary protein must be \<500 mg; * Glucose: within normal range; or patients with diabetes with stable glycaemic control under ongoing management; * Cardiac function: no myocardial infarction within 1 year; no unstable angina; no symptomatic severe arrhythmia; no cardiac insufficiency; * For women of child-bearing potential: negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days before the first dose of study drug. Men with reproductive potential and women at risk of pregnancy must use highly-effective contraceptive measures throughout the study (e.g., oral contraceptives, intrauterine device, sexual abstinence, or barrier contraception combined with spermicide), and continue contraception for 12 months after treatment completion; * Subjects voluntarily participate in this study, provide written informed consent, demonstrate good compliance, and are willing to complete follow-up assessments; * Patients for whom the investigator judges treatment may confer clinical benefit. Exclusion Criteria: * \- Patients with prior exposure to anti-androgen therapy or CDK4/6 inhibitors. * Patients receiving ongoing anti-neoplastic treatment. * Patients who have participated in, or are participating in, another investigational drug/therapy clinical trial within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of study drug. * Patients who received haematopoietic stimulating factors, such as granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) or erythropoietin, within 1 week before the first administration of study drug. * Positive serology for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody or \*Treponema pallidum\* antibody. * Patients with active hepatitis B or hepatitis C: * HBsAg-positive or HBcAb-positive subjects with detectable HBV DNA (value above the upper limit of normal); * Subjects with positive HCV antibody and detectable HCV RNA (value above the upper limit of normal). * Symptomatic and clinically significant pleural effusion or ascites requiring therapeutic intervention. * Active pulmonary disease (interstitial pneumonia, pneumonitis, obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma) or history of active pulmonary tuberculosis. * Presence of any uncontrolled clinical conditions, including but not limited to: * Persistent or active (severe) infection; * Poorly-controlled diabetes mellitus; * Cardiac disease (New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III/IV congestive heart failure or cardiac conduction block). * Occurrence of any of the following events within 6 months prior to first-dose administration: deep-vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism; myocardial infarction; severe or unstable arrhythmia or angina pectoris; percutaneous coronary intervention, acute coronary syndrome, coronary artery bypass grafting; cerebrovascular accident, transient ischaemic attack, cerebral embolism. * Prior history of stem-cell transplantation or solid-organ transplantation. * History of substance abuse of psychotropic agents without successful abstinence, or history of psychiatric disorders. * Other severe, acute or chronic medical conditions or laboratory abnormalities which, in the investigator's judgement, may increase risks associated with study participation or confound the interpretation of study results. * Patients deemed by the investigator to have poor compliance, or with other conditions rendering them unsuitable for trial participation. * Patients with a history of another malignancy within the past five years.
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Conditions
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Locations
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the Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
RECRUITINGShanghai, Shanghai Municipality, 200011, China
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