NCT05169567Active, not recruitingPhase 3
Abemaciclib (LY2835219) Plus Fulvestrant Compared to Placebo Plus Fulvestrant in Previously Treated Breast Cancer
postMONARCH: A Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 3 Study to Compare the Efficacy of Abemaciclib Plus Fulvestrant to Placebo Plus Fulvestrant in Participants With HR+, HER2-, Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer Following Progression on a CDK4 & 6 Inhibitor and Endocrine Therapy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will evaluate the effect of adding abemaciclib to fulvestrant for the treatment of hormone receptor-positive (HR+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HER2-) breast cancer that progressed or recurred after previous treatment with a type of drug known as a CDK4/6 inhibitor and endocrine therapy. Participation could last up to 5 years, depending on how you and your tumor respond.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 368 (actual)
- First submitted
- 22 Dec 2021
- Start date
- 11 Mar 2022
- Primary completion date
- 8 Feb 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Diseases
- Metastatic breast cancer
- NCT number
- NCT05169567
- EU CT number
- 2023-506771-10-00
- EudraCT number
- 2021-002301-10
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Participants enrolled: 368
- From 11 Mar 2022 to the primary completion date, 8 Feb 2024
- 138 sites in 17 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Have received any systemic therapy between disease recurrence/progression and study screening
- Have received more than 1 line of therapy for advanced or metastatic disease.
- Have received prior chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer (MBC)
- Have received prior treatment with fulvestrant, any investigational estrogen receptor (ER)-directed therapy (including selective ER degraders \[SERDs\] and non-SERDs), any phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)-, mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)-, or protein kinase B (AKT)-inhibitor
Other
- Have visceral crisis, lymphangitic spread, or leptomeningeal carcinomatosis
- Have symptomatic or untreated central nervous system metastasis
Who the study is looking for
- Have a diagnosis of HR+, HER2- locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer
- Have radiologic evidence of disease progression or recurrence either
- On treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor with aromatase inhibitor (AI) as initial therapy for advanced disease, or
- On/after treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor plus endocrine therapy (ET) administered as adjuvant therapy for early stage breast cancer
- Must be deemed appropriate for treatment with ET
- If female, have a postmenopausal status by natural or surgical means or by ovarian function suppression
- Have Response Evaluable Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) evaluable disease (measurable disease and/or nonmeasurable disease)
- Have a performance status of 0 or 1 on the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group scale (Oken et al. 1982)
- Have adequate renal, hematologic, and hepatic organ function
- Must be able to swallow capsules/tablets
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (138)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundacion Respirar Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Unknown status |
| Fundacion CENIT para la Investigacion en Neurociencias Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Caba | Argentina | Unknown status |
| Centro de Investigaciones Metabólicas (CINME) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aire | Argentina | Unknown status |
| Instituto Médico Río Cuarto Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Río Cuarto | Argentina | Unknown status |
| CER San Juan Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Juan | Argentina | Unknown status |
| Centro Médico San Roque Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Miguel de Tucumán | Argentina | Unknown status |
| Algemeen Ziekenhuis klina Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brasschaat | Belgium | Unknown status |
| JESSA Ziekenhuis Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hasselt | Belgium | Unknown status |
| CHU UCL Namur / Site Sainte Elisabeth Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Namur | Belgium | Unknown status |
| Fakultni nemocnice Hradec Kralove Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hradec Králové | Czechia | Unknown status |
| Multiscan Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pardubice | Czechia | Unknown status |
| Herlev and Gentofte Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Copenhagen | Denmark | Unknown status |
| Regionshospitalet Gødstrup Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Herning | Denmark | Unknown status |
| CHUAC-Hospital Teresa Herrera Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | A Coruña | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital Infanta Cristina Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Badajoz | Spain | Unknown status |
| Parc de Salut Mar - Hospital del Mar Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital Clinic de Barcelona Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | El Palmar | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Unknown status |
| H.R.U Málaga - Hospital Materno-infantil Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Málaga | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital Universitari Son Espases Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Palma | Spain | Unknown status |
| Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pamplona | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Reus | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital Universitario de Toledo Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toledo | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valencia | Spain | Unknown status |
| Institut Bergonié - Centre Régional de Lutte Contre Le Cancer de Bordeaux et Sud Ouest Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bordeaux | France | Unknown status |
| CHRU de Brest Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brest | France | Unknown status |
| CHD Vendée Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | La Roche-sur-Yon | France | Unknown status |
| Hôpital privé du Confluent SAS Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nantes | France | Unknown status |
| Alexandra Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Athens | Greece | Unknown status |
| University General Hospital of Heraklion Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Heraklion | Greece | Unknown status |
| University Hospital of Patras Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pátrai | Greece | Unknown status |
| Euromedica General Clinic of Thessaloniki Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Thessaloniki | Greece | Unknown status |
| Magyar Honvedseg Egeszsegugyi Kozpont Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Budapest | Hungary | Unknown status |
| Orszagos Onkologiai Intezet Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Budapest | Hungary | Unknown status |
| Petz Aladar Egyetemi Oktato Korhaz Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Győr | Hungary | Unknown status |
| Bacs-Kiskun Megyei Korhaz Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kecskemét | Hungary | Unknown status |
| Soroka Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Beersheba | Israel | Unknown status |
| Hadassah medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jerusalem | Israel | Unknown status |
| Meir Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kfar Saba | Israel | Unknown status |
| Rabin Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Petah Tikva | Israel | Unknown status |
| Sheba medical center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ramat Gan | Israel | Unknown status |
| Sourasky Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tel Aviv | Israel | Unknown status |
| Instituto Tumori Giovanni Paolo II Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bari | Italy | Unknown status |
| Ospedale Misericordia di Grosseto Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Grosseto | Italy | Unknown status |
| IRCCS - Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori" Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Meldola | Italy | Unknown status |
| Ospedale San Raffaele Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milan | Italy | Unknown status |
| Humanitas Istituto Clinico Catanese Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Misterbianco | Italy | Unknown status |
| P.O. "S. Maria della Misericordia" Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Udine | Italy | Unknown status |
| ASL Viterbo Ospedale Belcolle Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Viterbo | Italy | Unknown status |
| Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Daegu | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seongnam | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Korea University Anam Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Korea University Guro Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Centro Oncológico Internacional (COI) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guadalajara | Mexico | Unknown status |
| Centro de Investigacion en Artritis y Osteoporosis SC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mexicali | Mexico | Unknown status |
| Centro Regiomontano de Investigación Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Monterrey | Mexico | Unknown status |
| Oncologico Potosino, S.C. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Luis Potosí City | Mexico | Unknown status |
| COI Tijuana - Centro Oncológico Internacional Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tijuana | Mexico | Unknown status |
| Opolskie Centrum Onkologii w Opolu im. prof. Tadeusza Koszarowskiego Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Opole | Poland | Unknown status |
| Europejskie Centrum Zdrowia - Oddzial Onkologii Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Otwock | Poland | Unknown status |
| Universitetssjukhuset Örebro Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Örebro | Sweden | Unknown status |
| Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset Solna Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stockholm | Sweden | Unknown status |
| Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kaohsiung City | Taiwan | Unknown status |
| Taipei Tzu Chi General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Taipei City | Taiwan | Unknown status |
| Chi Mei Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tainan | Taiwan | Unknown status |
| MacKay Memorial Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taipei | Taiwan | Unknown status |
| Taipei Veterans General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taipei | Taiwan | Unknown status |
| Chang Gung Medical Foundation-Linkou Branch Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taoyuan | Taiwan | Unknown status |
| University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Albuquerque | United States | Unknown status |
| Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Atlanta | United States | Unknown status |
| Mfsmc-Hjwci Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Unknown status |
| Hematology Oncology Clinic- Baton Rouge/Sarah Cannon Research Institute/SCRI Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baton Rouge | United States | Unknown status |
| Texas Oncology - Bedford Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bedford | United States | Unknown status |
| St. Vincent Frontier Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Billings | United States | Unknown status |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Unknown status |
| Massachusetts General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Unknown status |
| The University of Vermont Medical Center Inc. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Burlington | United States | Unknown status |
| Tennessee Oncology-Chattanooga /Sarah Cannon Research Institute/SCRI Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chattanooga | United States | Unknown status |
| Maryland Oncology Hematology, P.A. - Clinton Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Clinton | United States | Unknown status |
| MGH Northshore Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Danvers | United States | Unknown status |
| Texas Oncology - Denton Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Denton | United States | Unknown status |
| Rocky Mountain Cancer Center - Hale Parkway Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Denver | United States | Unknown status |
| Texas Oncology, P.A. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | El Paso | United States | Unknown status |
| Southcoast Centers for Cancer Care Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fairhaven | United States | Unknown status |
| Florida Cancer Specialists SOUTH/Sarah Cannon Research Institute/SCRI Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fort Myers | United States | Unknown status |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute - Foxborough Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Foxborough | United States | Unknown status |
| Providence Medical Foundation Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fullerton | United States | Unknown status |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gainesville | United States | Unknown status |
| Ingalls Memorial Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Harvey | United States | Unknown status |
| Millennium Oncology Research Clinic Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hollywood | United States | Unknown status |
| Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Honolulu | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Unknown status |
| Clinical Trials of SWLA Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lake Charles | United States | Unknown status |
| Central Maine Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lewiston | United States | Unknown status |
| Dana Farber Cancer Center Londonderry Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Londonderry | United States | Unknown status |
| Cancer and Blood Specialty Clinic Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Alamitos | United States | Unknown status |
| TRIO-US (Translational Research in Oncology-US) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Unknown status |
| Keck School of Medicine of USC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Unknown status |
| Central Georgia Cancer Care Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Macon | United States | Unknown status |
| Woodlands Medical Specialists, PA Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | McKinney | United States | Unknown status |
| Texas Oncology-McKinney Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | McKinney | United States | Unknown status |
| Woodlands Medical Specialists, PA Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mesquite | United States | Unknown status |
| Dana Farber Cancer Center Merrimack Valley Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Methuen | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Miami Hospital and Clinics, Sylvester Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Miami | United States | Unknown status |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milford | United States | Unknown status |
| Intermountain Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Murray | United States | Unknown status |
| Sarah Cannon Research Institute SCRI Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Unknown status |
| Tennessee Oncology-Nashville/Sarah Cannon Research Institute/SCRI Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Unknown status |
| Mass General Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Newton | United States | Unknown status |
| Woodlands Medical Specialists, PA Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pensacola | United States | Unknown status |
| St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Phoenix | United States | Unknown status |
| Texas Oncology-Plano West Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Plano | United States | Unknown status |
| Texas Oncology-Plano East Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Plano | United States | Unknown status |
| Lifespan Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Providence | United States | Unknown status |
| Mays Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Antonio | United States | Unknown status |
| UCLA Hematology/Oncology - Parkside Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santa Monica | United States | Unknown status |
| Florida Cancer Specialists SOUTH/Sarah Cannon Research Institute/SCRI Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sarasota | United States | Unknown status |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | South Weymouth | United States | Unknown status |
| Highlands Oncology Group Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Springdale | United States | Unknown status |
| Intermountain Healthcare - St. George Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | St. George | United States | Unknown status |
| Olive View-UCLA Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sylmar | United States | Unknown status |
| US Oncology Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | The Woodlands | United States | Unknown status |
| Torrance Memorial Physician Network - Cancer Care Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Torrance | United States | Unknown status |
| Texas Oncology - Tyler Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tyler | United States | Unknown status |
| Florida Cancer Specialists EAST/Sarah Cannon Research Institute/SCRI Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | West Palm Beach | United States | Unknown status |
| Pih Health Hematology Medical Oncology Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Whittier | United States | Unknown status |
| Shenandoah Oncology, P.C. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Winchester | United States | Unknown status |
| Reliant Medical Group Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Worcester | United States | Unknown status |
| Adana City Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Adana | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Memorial Ankara Hastanesi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ankara | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Ankara Gülhane Eitim ve Aratrma Hastanesi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ankara | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Izmir Medical Park Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cordaleo | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Dicle Üniversitesi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Diyarbakır | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Trakya University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Edirne | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| TC Saglik Bakanligi Goztepe Prof. Dr. Suleyman Yalcin Sehir Hastanesi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Istanbul | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| İnönü Üniversitesi Turgut Özal Tıp Merkezi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Malatya | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Necmettin Erbakan Meram Medical Fac. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Meram | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
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