NCT04986423RecruitingPhase 2
ZEN003694 and Enzalutamide Versus Enzalutamide Monotherapy in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
A Randomized Phase 2b Study of ZEN003694 in Combination With Enzalutamide Versus Enzalutamide Monotherapy in Patients With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 8 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This is an open-label, randomized, Phase 2b study of ZEN003694 in combination with enzalutamide vs. enzalutamide monotherapy in patients with mCRPC who have progressed on prior abiraterone by PCWG3 criteria. Disease must have progressed on only abiraterone by PCWG3 criteria prior to study entry. The patient population will be separated into two cohorts: Cohort A: Patients with poor response to prior abiraterone defined as: * Abiraterone started in hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (HSPC) disease setting: \< 12 months duration on abiraterone or failure to achieve PSA nadir of 0.2 ng/mL while taking abiraterone, or; * Abiraterone started in castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) disease setting: \< 6 months duration on abiraterone or failure to achieve PSA50 response while on abiraterone Cohort B: Patients with response to prior abiraterone, defined as: * Abiraterone started in hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (HSPC) disease setting: ≥ 12 months duration on abiraterone and nadir PSA \< 0.2 ng/mL, or; * Abiraterone started in castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) disease setting: ≥ 6 months duration on abiraterone and confirmed PSA50 response
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 200 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 14 Jul 2021
- Start date
- 8 Sept 2021
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Zenith Epigenetics
- Diseases
- Prostate cancer
- NCT number
- NCT04986423
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Planned participants: 200
- From 8 Sept 2021 to the primary completion date, Dec 2026
- 31 sites in 2 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Any history of brain metastases, prior seizure, conditions predisposing to seizure activity
- Have previously received an investigational BET inhibitor (including previous participation in this study or a study of ZEN003694)
- Have received prior chemotherapy in the metastatic castration-resistant setting (prior chemotherapy in the hormone-sensitive setting is allowed provided last dose was at least 6 months prior to first dose of study drug)
- Have received prior systemic anti-cancer therapy within 2 weeks or five half-lives, whichever is shorter, prior to the first administration of study drug
- Have received exogenous administration of testosterone therapy since discontinuation of abiraterone.
- Failure to recover to Grade 1 or lower toxicity related to prior systemic therapy (excluding alopecia and neuropathy) prior to study entry
- Radiation therapy within 2 weeks of the first administration of study drug
Lab values
- Receipt of prior second-generation androgen receptor inhibitors (e.g. enzalutamide, apalutamide, darolutamide, proxalutamide). Receipt of first-generation AR antagonists (e.g. bicalutamide, nilutamide, flutamide) does not count towards this limit.
Who the study is looking for
- Males age ≥ 18 years
- Metastatic, castration-resistant, histologically confirmed prostate cancer
- Surgical castration or continuous medical castration for ≥ 8 weeks prior to screening; serum testosterone \< 50 ng/dL confirmed within 4 weeks of first administration of study drug
- Have progressed on prior abiraterone treatment by PCWG3 criteria
- Patients who are not candidates for chemotherapy in the opinion of the investigator or patients who decline chemotherapy
- Cohort A only - Patient must meet definition of poor responder to abiraterone by one of the following:
- Abiraterone started in hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (HSPC) disease setting: \< 12 months duration on abiraterone or failure to achieve PSA nadir of 0.2 ng/mL while taking abiraterone
- Abiraterone started in castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) disease setting: \< 6 months duration on abiraterone or failure to achieve a PSA50 response
- Cohort B only - Patient must meet definition of responder to abiraterone by one of the following:
- Abiraterone started in hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (HSPC) disease setting: ≥ 12 months duration on abiraterone and nadir PSA \< 0.2 ng/mL
- Abiraterone started in castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) disease setting: ≥ 6 months duration on abiraterone and PSA50 response
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Male · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (31)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunan Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Changsha | China | Recruiting |
| Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chengdu | China | Recruiting |
| Chongqing Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chongqing | China | Recruiting |
| Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hangzhou | China | Recruiting |
| Anhui Provincial Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hefei | China | Recruiting |
| Nanjing Drum Tower hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nanjing | China | Recruiting |
| Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shanghai | China | Recruiting |
| Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shanghai | China | Recruiting |
| Liaoning Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shenyang | China | Withdrawn |
| First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taiyuan | China | Recruiting |
| Hubei Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wuhan | China | Recruiting |
| Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wuhan | China | Recruiting |
| The First Affiliated hospital of Xiamen University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Xiamen | China | Recruiting |
| The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotang University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Xi'an | China | Recruiting |
| Henan Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Zhengzhou | China | Recruiting |
| University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ann Arbor | United States | Recruiting |
| Messino Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Asheville | United States | Recruiting |
| Texas Oncology - Central South Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Austin | United States | Recruiting |
| Hematology/Oncology Clinic Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baton Rouge | United States | Withdrawn |
| Maryland Oncology Hematology P.A. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbia | United States | Recruiting |
| Virginia Cancer Specialists Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fairfax | United States | Recruiting |
| Colorado Urology Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lakewood | United States | Recruiting |
| California Research Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Recruiting |
| D&H Cancer Research Center LLC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Margate | United States | Recruiting |
| Urology Associates, P.C. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Recruiting |
| Weill Cornell Medical College-New York Presbyterian Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Completed |
| BRCR global Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Plantation | United States | Recruiting |
| Northwest Cancer Specialists, P.C. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Portland | United States | Recruiting |
| University of California San Francisco Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Francisco | United States | Recruiting |
| Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seattle | United States | Recruiting |
| Innovative Clinical Research Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Whittier | United States | Recruiting |
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