Can a Two-Drug combo outsmart resistant prostate cancer?
NCT ID NCT06702995
First seen Oct 20, 2026 · Last updated Oct 21, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
Researchers are testing whether adding XNW5004, an experimental EZH2 inhibitor, to enzalutamide helps men whose metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer has worsened after newer hormone therapy. Participants take both drugs by mouth. The study first checks safety and finds a suitable dose, then looks at whether the combination slows cancer growth.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- XNW5004, an experimental EZH2 inhibitor tablet, given with enzalutamide
- What this could lead to
- If the combination works, it could offer another option for prostate cancer that has grown despite newer hormone drugs.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-phase trial, so researchers mainly check safety and dosing. The combination may not slow the cancer, and adding a second drug can bring extra side effects.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 1/2
Runs two stages together: safety and dose first, then whether the treatment works.
- Participants
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About 307 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Apr 2023
- Expected to finish
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Jul 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
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 years and older
- Sex
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Male participants only
- 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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Inclusion Criteria: * Patients must have the ability to understand and sign an approved informed consent form (ICF). * Age at the time of consent ≥ 18 years; * Life expectancy of ≥ 3 months; * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 to 1; * Prostate adenocarcinoma confirmed by histological or cytological examination, except neuroendocrine carcinoma or small cell carcinoma; * Metastatic prostate cancer disease, documented by CT/MRI imaging/bone scan ; * Ongoing luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist (LHRHa) or antagonist therapy (medical castration) or prior bilateral orchiectomy (surgical castration); subjects who have not undergone bilateral orchiectomy must be scheduled for Maintain effective LHRHa therapy throughout the study period; * Testosterone at castration level (≤50ng/dL or 1.7nmol/L) at screening; * Progressive disease in the setting of medical or surgical castration for study entry, the subject has 1 or more of the following 3 items: (1) PSA progression, defined as PSA \> 1ng/ml and at least 2 episodes of PSA level elevation ≥ 1 week apart; (2) disease progression as defined by RECIST 1.1; (3) bone disease progression as defined by PCWG3 criteria, i.e., ≥ more than 2 new lesions found on bone scan; * Previous anti-tumor therapy meet the following conditions: Ib and IIb: Failure of previous abiraterone acetate therapy (refers to disease progression during abiraterone acetate treatment; disease progression is defined as the same as in Article 9 of the enrollment criteria), and no next generation androgen receptor inhibitors (enzalutamide or apalutamide, etc.) have been used; IIb: Failure of previous only one approved novel hormone therapy, such as abiraterone acetate, apalutamide, darolutamide and rezvilutamide, etc., except enzalutamide; * Adequate hematologic and non-hematologic function during the screening. * Must agree to take adequate contraceptive measures from the beginning of the study to at least 3 months after the last dose of the test drug, and prohibit sperm donation; * Ability to comply with all procedures of the clinical trial protocol. Exclusion Criteria: * Previous anti-tumor therapy meet the following conditions: Ib and IIb: previously received any next generation androgen receptor antagonists (such as enzalutamide, apalutamide, proxalutamide and rezvilutamide, etc.) ; IIa: previously received with enzalutamide or more than 1 novel hormone therapy; * Prior chemotherapy for castration resistant disease (including but not limited to ADCs); * Prior exposure to EZH2 inhibitor(s) (including but not limited to tazemetostat and EZH1/2 inhibitors); * Subjects who received anti-tumor therapies including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radical radiotherapy, major surgery, targeting therapy and other anti-tumor therapies within 4 weeks or 5 half-lives of the drug (whichever is shorter) before the first dose; or received palliative radiotherapy within 2 weeks before the first dose; * Plan to receive any other anti-tumor therapy during this trial; * Subjects who participated in any other clinical trial of anti-tumor therapy within 28 days before the first dosing, and the last dose of other anti-tumor trial drug is within 28 days prior to the first administration of study drug in this trial; * Central nervous system metastasis or disease; * Severe bone injury caused by tumor bone metastasis judged by the investigator, including severe bone pain with poor control, pathological fractures of important sites and spinal cord compression that occurred in the past 6 months or are expected to occur in the near future, etc.; * Subjects who have a history of other malignancies within 3 years prior to enrollment and do not meet the criteria for clinical cure. This exclusion criterion does not apply to skin basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma with local treatment methods available and has been cured, superficial bladder cancer, intraductal breast carcinoma in situ, and papillary thyroid carcinoma; * Subjects who experienced stroke or other serious cerebrovascular diseases within 12 months prior to enrollment; * Subjects who have impaired heart functions or clinically serious heart disease; * Have severe systemic active infection; * Have a history of tuberculosis within 1 year before enrollment, or had an active TB infection more than 1 year before but not received adequate anti-TB treatment; * Subjects known to be allergic to the study drug or its active ingredients or excipients; * Subjects taking known moderate or strong inducers and inhibitors of CYP3A within 14 days before the first administration; * Active autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, such as: systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriasis requiring systemic therapy, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and Hashimoto's thyroiditis, etc., except type I diabetes, Hypothyroidism that can be controlled by replacement therapy alone, hyperthyroidism that is stable under drug control, skin diseases that do not require systemic therapy (eg, vitiligo, psoriasis); * Past medical history of interstitial lung disease (ILD), history of drug-induced ILD, history of radiation pneumonitis requiring steroid therapy, or evidence of any clinically active ILD; * Known impaired gastrointestinal (GI) function or GI diseases that may significantly affect the absorption or metabolism of oral drugs; abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal perforation or abdominal abscess occurred within 6 months before the first administration; * Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive, syphilis (Anti-TB) positive; * Known acute or chronic active hepatitis B (HBsAg positive or HBcAb positive, and HBV DNA ≥ 200 IU/mL or ≥ 103 copies/mL) or acute or chronic active hepatitis C (HCV antibody positive and positive for HCV RNA test); * Subjects who experienced toxicity events during previous anti-tumor treatment and the toxicity has not resolved (the toxicity events has not been graded as ≤ level 1 according to NCI-CTCAE 5.0). Other toxicities that the investigator does not think it will affect the safety assessment of the subject (such as hair loss, etc.) will be allowed; * Subjects who have clinically symptomatic and uncontrollable pleural or pericardial effusions after multiple times of treatments; * Subjects who have an allogeneic tissue/ solid organ transplantation; * Subjects who underwent major surgery within 4 weeks prior to the start of the study treatment, or who are scheduled to undergo a major surgery during the study period (procedures such as puncture or lymph node biopsy is allowed); * Subjects who have received live vaccines (including attenuated live vaccines) within 28 days prior to the administration of study drug. Inactivated vaccines are permitted. * A superscan as seen in the baseline bone scan; * Subjects who are considered unsuitable for the study judged by the investigator.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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The places running it
2 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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270 Dongan Road, Shanghai
RECRUITINGShanghai, Shanghai Municipality, 200032, China
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Cancer Hosipital of Shandong First Medical University,440 Jiyan Road, Jinan City, Shandong Province
RECRUITINGJinan, Shandong, 250117, China
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