New pill shows promise for advanced breast cancer in early trial
NCT ID NCT05596409
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This Phase 2 trial tests the drug elacestrant in 61 people with estrogen receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer who have not previously used CDK4/6 inhibitors. Participants take a daily pill for about 6 months. The study aims to see if the drug can delay cancer progression and shrink tumors.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Elacestrant (a hormone therapy pill taken once daily)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could provide a new oral treatment option for people with a common type of advanced breast cancer who haven't tried CDK4/6 inhibitors yet.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-phase (Phase 2) study with only 61 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The drug may not improve survival or could cause 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 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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61 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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May 2023
- Expected to finish
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Nov 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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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. Patient has signed the informed consent before all study specific activities are conducted. 2. Women or men aged ≥18 years (or the minimum age of consent as per local law), at the time of informed consent signature. Female patients may be either postmenopausal or premenopausal/perimenopausal. 1. Premenopausal or perimenopausal women and men must be concurrently given a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist starting at least 4 weeks before the start of trial therapy and is planning to continue LHRH during the study. 2. For perimenopausal women to be considered of non-childbearing potential, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) levels must be \>40 milli-international units per milliliter (mIU/mL). 3. Documentation of histopathologically or cytologically confirmed ER+, HER2-breast cancer, per local laboratory, as per the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)/College of American Pathologists (CAP) guidelines. Note: In the context of this trial, ER status will be considered positive if ≥10% of tumor cells demonstrate positive nuclear staining by immunohistochemistry. 4. Radiological disease progression during or after the most recent therapy in the advanced/metastatic setting 5. Patient has received at least one (and up to two) prior hormonal therapy in the advanced/metastatic setting. 6. Patients with disease relapse while on adjuvant endocrine therapy after the 2 first years, or with disease relapse within 12 months of completing adjuvant endocrine therapy are allowed (i.e., patients with secondary-resistant breast cancer according to the 5th European School of Oncology (ESO)-European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) international consensus guidelines for advanced breast cancer, Cardoso et al 2020). This therapy will be considered as first line treatment for eligibility purposes. 7. At least one measurable lesion as per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1 or a mainly lytic bone lesion for bone only disease. 8. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1. 9. Patient has adequate bone marrow and organ function, as defined by the following laboratory values: 1. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1.5 × 10\^9/liter(L) 2. Platelets ≥100 × 10\^9/L 3. Hemoglobin ≥9.0 grams(g)/deciliter(dL) 4. Potassium, sodium, calcium (corrected for serum albumin) and magnesium, Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v5.0 grade ≤1. Note: Corrected calcium for serum albumin must be calculated manually by the site using the Payne formula: Corrected calcium (milligrams \[mg\]/dL) = measured total calcium (mg/dL) + 0.8 (Normal albumin \[g/dL\] - serum albumin \[g/dL\]), where normal albumin is usually defaulted to 4.0 g/dL. 5. Cockcroft-Gault based creatinine clearance ≥50 milliliters per minute (mL/min). Note: Creatinine clearance (male) = (\[140-age in years\] × weight in kilograms \[kg\])/ (\[serum creatinine in mg/dL\] × 72) Creatinine clearance (female) = (0.85 × \[140-age in years\] × weight in kg)/ (\[serum creatinine in mg/dL\] × 72) 6. Serum albumin ≥3.0 g/dL (≥30 g/L) 7. In absence of liver metastases, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤3.0 × upper limit of normal (ULN). If the patient has liver metastases, ALT and AST ≤5 × ULN 8. If the patient has liver metastases, ALT, and AST ≤5.0 × ULN 9. Total serum bilirubin \<1.5 × ULN except for patients with Gilbert's syndrome who may be included if the total serum bilirubin is ≤3.0 × ULN or direct bilirubin ≤ 1.5 × ULN. Note: Laboratory assessments may be repeated during the Screening Phase after supplementation or transfusions (a single red blood cells transfusion is allowed once during the screening period). Exclusion Criteria: 1. Active or newly diagnosed central nervous system (CNS) metastases, including meningeal carcinomatosis. 2. Patients with advanced, symptomatic visceral crisis who are at risk of life-threatening complications in the short term, including massive uncontrolled effusions (peritoneal, pleural, pericardial) and liver involvement of \>50%. 3. Prior chemotherapy, elacestrant, or CDK4/6i in the advanced/metastatic setting. 4. Patients with only disease relapse while on the first 2 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy i.e., patients with primary endocrine resistance, are not eligible. 5. Patient has a concurrent malignancy or history of invasive malignancy within 3 years of enrollment, with the exception of basal or squamous cell skin cancer, superficial bladder cancer, or carcinoma in situ of the cervix that has completed curative treatment. 6. Uncontrolled significant active infections. 1. Patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection must have undetectable viral load during screening. 2. Patients known to be human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)+ are allowed as long as they have undetectable viral load at baseline. 7. Major surgery within 28 days before starting trial therapy. 8. Systemic radiotherapy within 14 days before starting trial therapy, or central nervous system (CNS) radiotherapy within 28 days before starting trial therapy. Inability to take oral medication, refractory or chronic nausea, gastrointestinal condition (including significant gastric or bowel resection), history of malabsorption syndrome, or any other uncontrolled gastrointestinal condition that may impact the absorption of study drug. 9. Known intolerance to elacestrant or any of its excipients. 10. Females of childbearing potential who do not agree to use a highly effective method of contraception and to abstain from donating/freezing ova within 28 days of the first dose of study treatment through 120 days after the last dose of study treatment. Highly effective non-hormonal methods of contraception should be used. 11. Men who do not agree to abstain from donating/freezing sperm, or to use a highly effective method of contraception within 28 days of the first dose of study treatment through 120 days after the last dose of study treatment. For subjects (who have not undergone vasectomy) with female partners of childbearing potential, the subject and his partner must use highly effective methods of contraception. 12. Females who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Females should not get pregnant during study treatment and for 120 days after last dose of study treatment. Females should not breastfeed during administration of elacestrant and for 1 week after receiving the last dose. 13. Patient is currently receiving or received any of the following medications prior to first dose of trial therapy: 1. Investigational anti-cancer therapy within 14 days (28 days in case of anticancer antibody-based treatments) or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter. 2. Fulvestrant treatment (last injection) \<42 days before first dose of study drug. 3. Any other endocrine therapy \<14 days before first dose of study drug. 4. Known strong or moderate inducers or inhibitors of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 within 14 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter. 5. Herbal preparations/medications within 7 days. These include, but are not limited to, St. John's wort, kava, ephedra (ma huang), gingko biloba, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), yohimbe, saw palmetto, and ginseng. 14. Any severe medical or psychiatric condition that in the opinion of the investigator(s) would preclude the patient's participation in a clinical study
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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COMPLEX ONCOLOGICAL CENTER - Shumen
Shumen, 9700, Bulgaria
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Centro De Pesquisa Clinica DO Hospital Sirio-Libanes - UNIDADE Brasilia
Brasília, 70200-730, Brazil
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Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas de Hematologia e Oncologia- CEPHO
Santo André, São Paulo, 09060-650, Brazil
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Centro de Pesquisas Clinicas em Oncologia (Center for Clinical Research in Oncology (CPCO)) - Hospital Evangélico de Cachoeiro de Itapemirim
Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Espírito Santo, 29308-014, Brazil
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Centro de Pesquisas Oncologicas
Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, 88034-000, Brazil
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Clinica de Pesquisas e Centro de Estudos Em Oncologia Ginecologica e Mamaria Ltda
São Paulo, 01317-001, Brazil
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Complex Oncology Center
Plovdiv, 4000, Bulgaria
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Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada, 89128, United States
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Fucam, Ac.
Mexico City, 4980, Mexico
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Highlands Oncology Group, PA
Springdale, Arkansas, 72762, United States
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Hospital São Lucas PUCRS - Centro de Pesquisa em Oncologia (CPO)
Porto Alegre, Rio Granda Do Sul, 70200-730, Brazil
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Hospital de Amor de Barretos
Barretos, São Paulo, 14784-400, Brazil
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Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre, Rio Granda Do Sul, 90035, Brazil
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I CAN Oncology Center, Centro Medico AVE
Monterrey, Nuevo León, 64710, Mexico
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Innova Medical Center
Tbilisi, 179, Georgia
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Institute of Clinical Oncology
Tbilisi, Georgia
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Institutul Oncologic "Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta" Cluj Napoca
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, 400150, Romania
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LTD Simon Khechinashvili University Clinic
Tbilisi, 179, Georgia
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Northwestern University, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Prentice Women's Hospital
Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States
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Torre Medica Hospital Dalinde
Mexico City, 06760, Mexico
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UT Health San Antonio Mays Cancer Center
San Antonio, Texas, 78229, United States
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Unidad Médica Onco-Hematológica
Puebla City, 4515, Mexico
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