New targeted drug aims to outsmart Hormone-Resistant breast cancer
NCT ID NCT07648914
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jul 24, 2026 · Updated 3 times
Summary
This phase 3 trial compares an experimental drug called BL-B01D1 to standard chemotherapy in people with a common type of breast cancer (HR+/HER2-) that has stopped responding to hormone therapy and cannot be removed by surgery. The study aims to see if BL-B01D1 can delay cancer growth or improve survival. Participants are randomly assigned to receive either the new drug or one of several standard chemotherapies.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- BL-B01D1 (izalontamab brengitecan)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could offer a new targeted treatment option for people with HR+/HER2- breast cancer whose disease has progressed after endocrine therapy.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-phase trial, and the drug may not prove more effective or safer than standard chemotherapy. Side effects from the investigational drug are possible.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 3
Large-scale testing in a bigger group. Usually the last step before a treatment can be approved.
- Participants
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About 446 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2026
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2028
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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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: 1. Voluntarily sign the informed consent form and comply with the protocol requirements; 2. No gender restrictions; 3. Age ≥ 18 years; 4. Expected survival time ≥ 3 months; 5. Patients with unresectable locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic HR+ HER2- breast cancer; 6. Trial participants have not received systemic chemotherapy; 7. Trial participants have progressed after at least one line of endocrine therapy, etc.; 8. Documented radiographic disease progression prior to enrollment; 9. Agree to provide archived tumor tissue specimens or fresh tissue samples from the primary or metastatic lesion within 3 years; 10. Must have at least one measurable lesion as defined by RECIST v1.1; 11. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1; 12. Toxicity from prior anti-tumor therapy must have recovered to ≤ Grade 1 as defined by NCI-CTCAE v6.0; 13. No severe cardiac dysfunction, with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ 50%; 14. Must meet required organ function levels; 15. Urinary protein ≤ 2+ or \< 1000 mg/24h; 16. For premenopausal women of childbearing potential, a pregnancy test must be performed within 7 days before starting treatment, with a negative serum pregnancy result, and they must not be breastfeeding; all enrolled patients (regardless of gender) must use adequate barrier contraception throughout the treatment period and for 6 months after treatment ends. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Previously treated with ADC drugs that use topoisomerase I inhibitors as the toxin or target EGFR and/or HER3; 2. Use of chemotherapy, biotherapy, immunotherapy, etc., within 4 weeks or 5 half-lives before the first dose; 3. Previous treatment with anthracycline drugs where the equivalent cumulative dose of doxorubicin exceeds 360 mg/m²; 4. History of severe cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases; 5. Unstable thrombotic events requiring therapeutic intervention within 6 months before screening; 6. Prolonged QT interval, complete left bundle branch block, etc.; 7. Diagnosis of another malignancy within 3 years before the first dose; 8. Hypertension poorly controlled by two antihypertensive medications; 9. Poorly controlled blood glucose levels; 10. History of ILD requiring steroid therapy, current ILD, or grade ≥2 radiation pneumonitis, etc.; 11. Concurrent pulmonary diseases causing clinically severe respiratory function impairment; 12. Patients with active central nervous system metastases; 13. Presence of large serous cavity effusions or symptomatic serous cavity effusions, etc.; 14. Imaging findings indicating tumor invasion or encasement of the abdomen, chest, etc.; 15. Severe infection within 4 weeks before study randomization; 16. Severe, unhealed wounds, ulcers, or fractures within 4 weeks before signing the informed consent form; 17. Trial participants with clinically significant bleeding or a significant bleeding tendency within 4 weeks prior to signing the informed consent form; 18. History of inflammatory bowel disease, extensive bowel resection, etc.; 19. Patients with a history of allergy to recombinant humanized antibodies or allergy to BL-B01D1 or any of its excipients; 20. History of autologous or allogeneic stem cell transplantation; 21. Positive for human immunodeficiency virus antibodies, active hepatitis B virus infection, or hepatitis C virus infection; 22. Receipt of other unapproved clinical study drugs or treatments within 4 weeks before the first dose; 23. Trial participants planning to receive or having received live vaccines within 28 days before the first dose; 24. Other conditions deemed by the investigator to be unsuitable for participation in this clinical trial due to complications or other reasons.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
1 site. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
RECRUITINGBeijing, Beijing Municipality, China
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