A Phase 2/3 interventional study of Cabazitaxel and Abiraterone in Prostate Cancer Metastatic and Metastasis, sponsored by The Netherlands Cancer Institute. Completed at 19 sites in Netherlands. Open to male participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-04-15.
Sponsored by The Netherlands Cancer Institute · Phase 2/3, Interventional, and Treatment
Among 10 studies testing abiraterone in Neoplasm Metastasis — 2 open to participants now, 3 under way, none of them phase 3. abiraterone · Neoplasm Metastasis.
Among the 10 studies testing abiraterone in Neoplasm Metastasis, this one is the 4th largest by enrollment, is one of 2 that started in 2017, is the only one in phase 2/3, and was the 7th registered.
4,040 studies on the registry are indexed under Neoplasm Metastasis; 886 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 100 is above the median of 50 across 3,268 interventional studies indexed under Neoplasm Metastasis.
Browse Neoplasm Metastasis studies →2 of the 10 studies testing abiraterone in Neoplasm Metastasis are open now, in 1 country. Each count lists the studies.
abiraterone: first FDA approval 2011 (ZYTIGA), first EMA approval 2011. What it is approved for, and how studies give it, is on its page →
Of the 688 Neoplasm Metastasis studies recruiting now, 536 (78%) set no upper age limit and 97 (14%) stop at 75 or younger; 48 take children under 18; 18 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 18 Years and older · male · no healthy volunteers.
The full table on the hub →10 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
First in 2011; this study’s year is marked. 2 started in 2017.
Median enrollment 70 across the 10 interventional studies. Of the 7 that completed or were terminated, 4 (57%) have results posted.
3 of 10 have an industry lead sponsor. The 10 most frequent:
The Netherlands Cancer Institute is the lead sponsor of 231 studies on the registry; 67 are open to participants now.
11 studies in Neoplasm Metastasis by The Netherlands Cancer Institute: 4 open now, 6 under way, none of them phase 3. Of 5 finished, 0 (0%) have results posted.
Among the 11 studies in Neoplasm Metastasis by The Netherlands Cancer Institute, this one is one of 2 that started in 2017, is one of 2 in phase 2/3, and was the 6th registered.
The Netherlands Cancer Institute’s Neoplasm Metastasis studies by the year they started, since 2008.
None of the studies under way reaches primary completion within a year.
Among the 10 studies testing abiraterone in Neoplasm Metastasis, from their registry updates:
Nothing recorded among them since 2026-09-25.
Among The Netherlands Cancer Institute’s 11 in Neoplasm Metastasis:
Nothing recorded among them since 2026-09-25.
Rationale:
The aim of this study is to identify the optimal second line treatment option for patients with a poor prognosis metastasized Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) with respect to Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR) rate and quality of life.
Objective:
The primary endpoint is CBR in mCRPC patients with poor prognostic features and previously treated with docetaxel, randomized between cabazitaxel (Arm A) and novel hormonal agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as second-line therapy (Arm B).
Intervention:
Patients in Arm A will receive cabazitaxel and prednisone and patients in Arm B will receive abiraterone and prednisone OR enzalutamide.
Nature and extent of the burden and risks associated with participation, benefit and group relatedness:
Treatment regimens evaluated in this trial are used in common mCRPC treatment practice and are reimbursed. Risk of side effects or death as a result of treatment is not affected by the trial design. At baseline, prior to each treatment cycle and at end of treatment, patients are requested to visit the out-patient clinic, where a physical exam will be performed in combination with vena puncture for blood analysis. Radiological evaluation will be performed at base line, after 3 months of treatment and at end of treatment. All above mentioned interventions can be considered as standard practice. Patients are requested to fill out QoL and pain/analgesic use questionnaires at base line, prior to each cycle and at end of treatment.
Rationale:
The aim of this study is to identify the optimal second line treatment option for patients with a poor prognosis metastasized Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) with respect to Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR) rate and quality of life.
Objective:
The primary endpoint is CBR in mCRPC patients with poor prognostic features and previously treated with docetaxel, randomized between cabazitaxel (Arm A) and novel hormonal agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as second-line therapy (Arm B).
Study design:
a prospective, multicenter, national, randomized, open label phase IIB study. Study population: Males over 18 years with mCRPC, previously treated with docetaxel and features of poor prognostic disease; including duration of response to androgen deprivation shorter than one year, liver metastases, disease progression during docetaxel treatment or within 6 months after docetaxel treatment completion.
Intervention:
Patients in Arm A will receive cabazitaxel and prednisone and patients in Arm B will receive abiraterone and prednisone OR enzalutamide.
Main study parameters/endpoints: Primary endpoint: Clinical benefit rate (CBR). Secondary endpoints include: formal comparison of the CBR in both study arms, Time To Symptomatic Progression (TTSP), Time To PSA (prostate specific antigen), Progression (TTPP), and Time To Radiologic Progression (TTRP), progression free survival, overall survival, safety/ toxicity profile and Quality of Life (QoL) and pain response.
Nature and extent of the burden and risks associated with participation, benefit and group relatedness:
Treatment regimens evaluated in this trial are used in common mCRPC treatment practice and are reimbursed. Risk of side effects or death as a result of treatment is not affected by the trial design. At baseline, prior to each treatment cycle and at end of treatment, patients are requested to visit the out-patient clinic, where a physical exam will be performed in combination with vena puncture for blood analysis. Radiological evaluation will be performed at base line, after 3 months of treatment and at end of treatment. All above mentioned interventions can be considered as standard practice. Patients are requested to fill out QoL and pain/analgesic use questionnaires at base line, prior to each cycle and at end of treatment.
Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.
Poor prognosis disease as defined by any of the following:
Exclusion Criteria:
Inadequate organ and bone marrow function as evidenced by:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hypersensitivity
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Washout period
A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraindication
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hemoglobin (Hb)
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Platelets
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cabazitaxel 25mg/m2 IV, once every 3 weeks
Drug: Cabazitaxel
At physician's discretion: Abiraterone 1000mg oral, taken daily Prednisone 5mg oral, 2 times a day OR Enzalutamide 160mg oral taken daily
Drug: Abiraterone · Drug: Enzalutamide
Cabazitaxel 25mg/m2 IV, once every 3 weeks
Also known as: No other intervention names
Abiraterone 1000mg oral, taken daily + Prednisone 5mg oral, 2 times a day
Also known as: No other intervention names
Enzalutamide 160mg oral taken daily
Also known as: No other intervention names
Clinical benefit rate
• To assess the Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR) in patients with mCRPC and poor prognostic factors treated with cabazitaxel (Arm A) or novel hormonal agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as second-line therapy (Arm B) who have been treated with docetaxel.
Time frame: From start treatment until 12 weeks of treatment
Comparing clinical benefit rate in arm A and arm B
• To formally compare the Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR) in both study arms A and B.
Time frame: From start treatment until 12 weeks of treatment
Duration of treatment
• To determine duration of treatment (DOT) in mCRPC patients treated with cabazitaxel or novel hormone agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as second-line therapy and for those who cross over to the other study arm as a third-line therapy.
Time frame: for each patient; until end of treatment (for Arm A max 30 weeks, for Arm B max 24 months)
Progression free survival
• To determine the Progression Free Survival (PFS) of mCRPC patients treated with cabazitaxel or novel hormone agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as second-line therapy and for those who cross over to the other study arm as a third-line therapy.
Time frame: for each patient; until progression or through study completion (max 24 months)
Overall survival
• To determine the Overall Survival (OS) of mCRPC patients treated with cabazitaxel or novel hormone agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as second-line therapy.
Time frame: for each patient; until death or end of trial (max 24 months)
(serious) adverse events according to the ctcae v4.03: number of incidents, number of participants with (S)AE's
• To evaluate safety and toxicity profile of cabazitaxel and novel hormone agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as a second line treatment.
Time frame: for each patient: until 28 days after the last treatment
Quality of Life assesed by the FACT-P questionnaire
• Quality of Life (QoL) as assessed by Fundamental Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Prostate (FACT-P) questionnaire in metastatic CRPC patients treated with cabazitaxel or novel hormone agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as second-line therapy.
Time frame: for each patient; until start of the next therapy, death or end of trial (max 24 months)
Quality of Life as assessed by the BPI-S questionnaire
• Quality of Life (QoL) as assessed Brief Pain Inventory-Short form (BPI-S) questionnaire in metastatic CRPC patients treated with cabazitaxel or novel hormone agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as second-line therapy.
Time frame: for each patient; until start of the next therapy, death or end of trial (max 24 months)
Use of pain medication, assessed by a questionnaire about opiate use.
Use of pain medication, assessed by a questionnaire about opiate use in metastatic CRPC patients treated with cabazitaxel or novel hormone agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as second-line therapy.
Time frame: for each patient; until start of the next therapy, death or end of trial (max 24 months)
Time to symptomatic progression
Time To Symptomatic Progression (TTSP) in CRPC patients treated with cabazitaxel or novel hormone agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as second-line therapy and for those who cross over to the other study arm as a third-line therapy.
Time frame: for each patient: until symptomatic progression or through study completion (max 24 months)
Time to PSA progression
Time To PSA Progression (TTPP) in mCRPC patients treated with cabazitaxel or novel hormone agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as second-line therapy and for those who cross over to the other study arm as a third-line therapy.
Time frame: for each patient: until PSA progression or through study completion (max 24 months)
Time to Radiological progression
Time To Radiological Progression (TTRP) in mCRPC patients treated with cabazitaxel or novel hormone agents (abiraterone OR enzalutamide) as second-line therapy and for those who cross over to the other study arm as a third-line therapy.
Time frame: for each patient: until radiological progression or through study completion (max 24 months)
PSA>50% decrease
Rate of PSA\>50% decrease from baseline
Time frame: for each patient; from baseline until end of trial (max 24 months)
Exploratory objectives; neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio
Prostate cancer is a very diverse disease and there is a need for more personalized treatment than offered nowadays. Therefore, three biomarker studies are included in this randomized trial. The value of the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio will be measured in all patients, to try to find a predictive value
Time frame: For each patient: until the end of treatment, Arm A max 30 weeks, Arm B max 24 months
Exploratory objectives; number of mutations in 73 genes from cell-free DNA
We will draw blood from patients to measure mutations in 73 prostate cancer-related genes out of cell-free DNA. The goal again is to find a predictive value in these DNA mutations and to be able to give more personalized treatment.
Time frame: For each patient: until the end of treatment, Arm A max 30 weeks, Arm B max 24 months
Exploratory objectives; epigenetics-based biomarker discovery using cfDNA
We will isolate chromatinized cfDNA from serum samples of all patients in this trial. Immunoprecipitation will be performed for H3K27ac after which isolated DNA fragments are sequenced, effectively sequencing the enriched functional enhancers that are detected in the serum-derived cfDNA. The aim is to identify distinct functional enhancers that enable outcome prediction.
Time frame: For each patient: until end of treatment (max 24 months)
This study is completed, as verified in Apr 2022. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.
Sign in to followQuestions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.
Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.
Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.
Studies of the drugs tested here: Cabazitaxel · Abiraterone · Enzalutamide
The Netherlands Cancer Institute →