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

Stemline Therapeutics

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Drug: Elacestrant; Drug: Standard of Care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT03778931

RAD1901-308

Details and patient eligibility

About

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).

Full description

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.

Enrollment: 478 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Critical Inclusion Criteria:

1. 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.
2. Participants must be appropriate candidates for endocrine monotherapy
3. Participants must have measurable disease or bone only disease with evaluable lesions
4. 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).
5. Participants must have ER+ and HER2- tumor status
6. 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.
7. 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).
8. Participants may have received no more than one line of chemotherapy in the advanced/metastatic setting.

Critical Exclusion Criteria:

1. 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).

2. Prior anticancer or investigational drug treatment within the following windows:

   1. Fulvestrant treatment < 42 days before first dose of study drug
   2. Any endocrine therapy < 14 days before first dose of study drug
   3. Chemotherapy < 21 days before first dose of study drug
   4. 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
   5. Bisphosphonates or RANKL inhibitors initiated or dose changed < 3 months prior to first dose of study drug

3. Presence of symptomatic visceral disease as defined in protocol.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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478 participants in 2 patient groups

Elacestrant

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in Arm 1 will receive elacestrant.

Treatment:

Drug: Elacestrant

Standard of Care (SoC)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants in Arm 2 will receive investigator's choice of one of the standard-of-care drugs (fulvestrant, anastrozole, letrozole, or exemestane).

Treatment:

Drug: Standard of Care