A Phase III, Randomized, Efficacy and Safety Study of Enzalutamide Plus Leuprolide, Enzalutamide Monotherapy, and Placebo Plus Leuprolide in Men With High-risk Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer Progressing After Definitive Therapy
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Study Summary
To evaluate the efficacy and safety of enzalutamide in patients with high-risk, hormone-sensitive, non-metastatic prostate cancer that has biochemically recurred (rising prostate-specific antigen [PSA] level) following definitive local therapy with radical prostatectomy and/or radiation therapy.
To determine if enzalutamide can delay the development of metastatic prostate cancer in high-risk men with a rapidly rising PSA.
To assess enzalutamide plus leuprolide in patients with high-risk nonmetastatic prostate cancer progressing after radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy or both.
To assess Tx effects in time to first and confirmed (at next visit) clinically meaningful deterioration (TTFD/TTFCD) as measured with the Brief Pain Inventory Short Form (BPI-SF) worst pain and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Prostate (FACT-P) total score using predefined thresholds.
To present other non-key secondary efficacy endpoints for enza monotherapy vs placebo + LA.
All efficacy objectives will compare enzalutamide plus leuprolide and enzalutamide monotherapy versus placebo plus leuprolide.
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate at initial biopsy, without neuroendocrine differentiation, signet cell, or small cell features;
- Prostate cancer initially treated by radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy (including brachytherapy) or both, with curative intent;
- PSA doubling time < or = 9 months;
- Screening PSA by the central laboratory > or = 1 ng/mL for patients who had radical prostatectomy (with or without radiotherapy) as primary treatment for prostate cancer and at least 2 ng/mL above the nadir for patients who had radiotherapy only as primary treatment for prostate cancer;
- Serum testosterone < or = 150 ng/dL (5.2 nmol/L).
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 at screening.
- Estimated life expectancy of >or= 12 months.
- Able to swallow the study drug and comply with study requirements including independently completing study questionnaires.
- Throughout study, the patient and his female partner who is of childbearing potential must use 2 acceptable methods of birth control (1 of which must include a condom as a barrier method of contraception) from screening through 3 months after the last dose of study drug or per local guidelines where these require additional description of contraceptive methods. Two acceptable methods of birth control thus include the following:
- Condom (barrier method is required)
- One of the following is required:
- Established and ongoing use of oral, injected, or implanted hormonal method of contraception by the female partner
- Placement of an intrauterine device or intrauterine system by the female partner
- Additional barrier method including contraceptive sponge and occlusive cap (diaphragm or cervical/vault caps) with spermicidal foam/gel/film/cream/suppository by the female partner
- Tubal ligation in the female partner performed at least 6 months before screening
- Vasectomy or other procedure resulting in infertility (eg, bilateral orchiectomy), performed at least 6 months before screening
- Throughout the study, the patient must use a condom if having sex with a pregnant woman.
- Must agree not to donate sperm from first dose of study drug through 3 months after the last dose of study drug.
- Subjects must fulfil the following entry criteria indicative of having biochemical relapse and high-risk disease: PSA doubling time < or = 9 months; screening PSA threshold of > or = 2.0 ng/mL for subjects who had prior radical prostatectomy or > or = 5.0 ng/mL and > or = nadir + 2 ng/mL for subjects who had radiotherapy as the primary therapy; androgen deprivation therapy < or = 36 months in duration and > or = 9 months before randomization and administered only in the neoadjuvant/adjuvant setting;
- Treatment will be reinitiated if PSA values rise > or = 2.0 ng/mL for patients with prior prostatectomy or > or = 5.0 ng/mL for those with only prior radiotherapy.
- Age 18 years or older and willing and able to provide informed consent
- Prior or present evidence of distant metastatic disease as assessed by radiographic imaging;
- Prior hormonal therapy. Neoadjuvant/adjuvant therapy to treat prostate cancer < or = 36 months in duration and > or = 9 months before randomization, or a single dose or a short course (< or = 6 months) of hormonal therapy given for rising PSA > or = 9 months before randomization is allowed.;
- Prior cytotoxic chemotherapy, aminoglutethimide, ketoconazole, abiraterone acetate, or enzalutamide for prostate cancer;
- Prior systemic biologic therapy, including immunotherapy, for prostate cancer;
- Major surgery within 4 weeks before randomization;
- Treatment with 5-a reductase inhibitors (finasteride, dutasteride) within 4 weeks of randomization;
- Known or suspected brain metastasis or active leptomeningeal disease;
- History of another invasive cancer within 3 years before screening, with the exception of fully treated cancers with a remote probability of recurrence
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