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NCT Number: NCT03778931

Phase 3 Trial of Elacestrant Versus Standard of Care for the Treatment of ER+/HER2- Advanced Breast Cancer

This Phase 3 clinical study compares the efficacy and safety of elacestrant to the standard of care (SoC) options of fulvestrant or an aromatase inhibitor (AI) in women and men with breast cancer whose disease has advanced on at least one endocrine therapy including a CDK4/6 inhibitor in combination with fulvestrant or an aromatase inhibitor (AI).

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

Primary location

Clínica Pergamino S.A., Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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About this study

This is an international, multicenter, randomized, open-label, active-controlled, event-driven, Phase 3 clinical study comparing the efficacy and safety of elacestrant to the SoC options of fulvestrant or an aromatase inhibitor (AI) in postmenopausal women and in men with advanced or metastatic ER+/HER2- breast cancer, either in participants with tumors that harbor mutations in the ligand binding domain (LBD) of the estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) gene (ESR1-mut participants) or in all participants regardless of ESR1 status (ESR1-mut and ESR1 wild type [ESR1-wt]) and whose disease has relapsed or progressed on at least one and no more than two prior lines of endocrine therapy (with documented progression), which must have included prior CDK4/6 inhibitor therapy in combination with fulvestrant or an aromatase inhibitor (AI) and for whom hormonal monotherapy with one of the SoC drugs (fulvestrant, anastrozole, letrozole, exemestane) is an appropriate treatment option.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Critical Inclusion Criteria:

  • Participants with proven diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the breast with evidence of either locally advanced disease not amenable to resection or radiation therapy with curative intent or metastatic disease not amenable to curative therapy.
  • Participants must be appropriate candidates for endocrine monotherapy
  • Participants must have measurable disease or bone only disease with evaluable lesions
  • Female or male participants age ≥ 18 years; female participants must be postmenopausal women, and male participants must not allow pregnancy with their sperm (abstain, do not donate sperm, et cetera).
  • Participants must have ER+ and HER2- tumor status
  • Participants must have previously received at least one and no more than two lines of endocrine therapy for advanced/metastatic breast cancer and meet additional previous treatment criteria.
  • Participants must have received prior treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor in combination with either fulvestrant or an aromatase inhibitor (AI) for advanced/metastatic breast cancer (mBC).
  • Participants may have received no more than one line of chemotherapy in the advanced/metastatic setting.

Critical Exclusion Criteria:

  • Prior treatment with elacestrant or other investigational selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD) or ER antagonist (D-0502, GDC-0810, GDC-0927, GDC-9545, G1T-48, LSZ102, AZD9496, SAR439859, ZN-c5, H3B-6545, bazedoxifene, lasofoxifene).
  • Prior anticancer or investigational drug treatment within the following windows:
  • Fulvestrant treatment < 42 days before first dose of study drug
  • Any endocrine therapy < 14 days before first dose of study drug
  • Chemotherapy < 21 days before first dose of study drug
  • Any investigational anti-cancer drug therapy < 28 days or five half-lives (whichever is shorter) before the first dose of study drug. Enrollment of participants whose most recent therapy was an investigational agent should be discussed with the Sponsor
  • Bisphosphonates or RANKL inhibitors initiated or dose changed < 3 months prior to first dose of study drug
  • Presence of symptomatic visceral disease as defined in protocol.

Treatment and study plan

Elacestrant

Drug

400 mg/day once daily oral dosing

Other names: RAD1901, ORSERDU

Standard of care

Drug
  • Fulvestrant: 500 mg administered intramuscularly (IM) into the buttocks as two 5 mL injections on C1D1, C1D15 and C2D1 and Day 1 of every subsequent 28-day cycle
  • Anastrozole 1 mg/day on a continuous dosing schedule
  • Letrozole: 2.5 mg/day on a continuous dosing schedule
  • Exemestane: 25 mg/day on a continuous dosing schedule

Other names: Faslodex, Arimidex, Femara, Aromasin

Primary outcomes

  1. Progression-free Survival in ESR1-mut Participants

    Time frame: From Date of Randomization until Disease Progression or Death Due to Any Cause (up to 12 Months)

    Progression-free survival based on blinded IRC assessment in ESR1-mut participants defined as the length of time from randomization until the date of objective disease progression per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.1) as assessed by the blinded IRC or death from any cause. Progression is defined per RECIST v1.1 as a 20% increase in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions, or a measurable increase in a non-target lesion, or the appearance of new lesions.

  2. Progression-free Survival in All Participants

    Time frame: From Date of Randomization until Disease Progression or Death Due to Any Cause (up to 12 Months)

    Progression-free survival based on blinded imaging review committee (IRC) assessment in all (ESR1-mut and ESR1-wt) participants.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall Survival in ESR1-mut Participants

    Time frame: From Date of Randomization until Death Due to Any Cause (Estimated up to 24 Months)

    Overall survival in ESR1-mut participants, where overall survival is defined as the length of time from randomization until the date of death from any cause.

  2. Overall Survival in All Participants

    Time frame: From Date of Randomization until Death Due to Any Cause (Estimated up to 24 Months)

    Overall survival in all (ESR1-mut and ESR1-wt) participants.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Stemline Therapeutics, Inc.

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Registry information

Official study title

Elacestrant Monotherapy vs. Standard of Care for the Treatment of Patients With ER+/HER2- Advanced Breast Cancer Following CDK4/6 Inhibitor Therapy: A Phase 3 Randomized, Open-label, Active-controlled, Multicenter Trial

Acronym: EMERALD

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2024
First posted
Dec 19, 2018
Registry last updated
Sep 15, 2025

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