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Status unknownNCT03305224CORE-OCUUpdated Sep 9, 2021

The Combination Therapy With Ra-223 and Enzalutamide

A Phase 2 interventional study of Ra-223 in combination with enzalutamide in Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer and Bone Metastases, sponsored by Taro Iguchi, MD, PHD. Status unknown at 1 site in Japan. Open to male participants aged 20 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-09-09.

Sponsored by Taro Iguchi, MD, PHD · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Sep 2021), so the status shown — last known as Active, not recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
10
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
20 Years and older
Sex
Male
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Study summary

This study is to evaluate preliminary efficacy of Ra-223 in combination with Enzalutamide in progressive CRPC patients with bone metastasis

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Conditions studied

  • Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
  • Bone Metastases

Keywords

  • castration-resistant prostate cancer
  • bone metastasis
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In context

Neoplasm Metastasis

4,040 studies on the registry are indexed under Neoplasm Metastasis; 886 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 10 is below the median of 50 across 3,268 interventional studies indexed under Neoplasm Metastasis.

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Lead sponsor

Taro Iguchi, MD, PHD is the lead sponsor of 2 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
20 Years and older
Sexes eligible
Male
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Patients diagnosed as CRPC
  2. Surgical or those who will be treated with luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonists throughout the study period,
  3. Patients who had >30% of PSA response to enzalutamide prior to enrollment,
  4. Interval between PSA progression and enrollment is up to 3 months,
  5. With bone (≥ 2 hot spots) on bone scintigraphy within previous 24 weeks,
  6. No intention to use anti-cancer chemotherapy within the next 6 months,
  7. performance status (ECOG-PS): 0-1,
  8. ≥ 6 months,
  9. Laboratory requirements within 30 days before enrollment:

    • (ANC) ≥ 1.5 x 10e9/L,
    • count ≥ 100 x 10e9/L,
    • ≥ 10.0 g/dL,
    • Total level ≤1.5 institutional (ULN),
    • (AST) and Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 ULN,
    • Creatinine ≤ 1.5ULN, and estimated (GFR) ≥ 30 mL/min/1.73 m2,
  10. Age ≥ 20,
  11. Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written (IC).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Prior chemotherapy or planned treatment with chemotherapy,
  2. PSA progression within 3 months after initiation of enzalutamide
  3. Prior treatment with , estramustine or abiraterone acetate,
  4. Any systemic radiotherapy with strontium-89, samarium-153, rhenium-186 or rhenium-188 for the treatment of bone ,
  5. Had history of gastrointestinal bleeding or ulcer within 3 months prior to study entry,
  6. History of visceral metastasis, or presence of visceral metastasis detected by screening imaging examinations,
  7. History of or known ,
  8. Malignant lymphadenopathy ≧1.5 cm in short axis,
  9. Imminent or established spinal cord compression based on clinical findings and/or MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging),
  10. Any other serious illness or medical condition
  11. Substance abuse, medical, psychological, or social conditions that might interfere with the subject's participation in the study or evaluation of the study Results
  12. Those who judged to be inappropriate by the principal investigator or co-investigator.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(13)

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Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

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.

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.

Brain metastases

Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).

Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
10 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Other
    Ra-223 + Enzalutamide

    Drug: Ra-223 in combination with enzalutamide

Interventions

  • DrugRa-223 in combination with enzalutamide

    Drug pages: Radium-223 · Enzalutamide

    Ra-223 (55 kBq/kg i.v.) 6 injections at 4 weeks interval in combination with enzalutamide 160 mg per a day

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Changes in Alkaline phosphatase (ALP)

    Percentage of change from baseline to 6 months (or earlier for those who discontinue study therapy)

    Time frame: 6 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Tolerability of Radium-223 therapy

    Proportion of patients who complete 6 times injections of radium-223

    Time frame: 6 months

  2. Evaluation for bone metastasis by 18F-NaF-PET

    Fractional decline of intensity of tracer uptake measured by SUVmax on 18F-NaF-PET at 1, 3, 6 months.

    Time frame: 1, 3, 6 months

  3. Evaluation for bone metastasis by bone scintigraphy

    The change of Bone Scan Index (BSI) by bone scintigraphy at 1, 3, 6 months.

    Time frame: 1, 3, 6 months

  4. Overall Survival Rate

    Overall Survival (OS) is defined as the time from the registration to death due to any cause, or censored at date last known alive.

    Time frame: 3 years

  5. Time to occurrence of Symptomatic Skeletal-related Events (SSEs)

    Time to occurrence of SSEs are defined asthe time from registration to the date of the occurrence of SSEs (symptomatic fracture, surgery or radiation to bone, or spinal cord compression).

    Time frame: 1 year

  6. Time to occurrence of visceral metastasis

    Time to occurrence of visceral metastasis was defined as the time from registration to the date of the occurrence of a visceral metastasis for each patient.

    Time frame: 1 year

  7. Time to initiation of cytotoxic chemotherapy

    The time to initiation of cytotoxic chemotherapy is defined as the time from registration to the date of initiation of cytotoxic chemotherapy.

    Time frame: 1 year

  8. Changes in Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)

    Percent change in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) from baseline at 6 months.

    Time frame: 6 months

  9. Changes From Baseline for Brief Pain Inventory (BPI)

    The change for the BPI-SF (Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form) score was calculated.

    Time frame: 6 months

  10. Changes From Baseline for Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Prostate (FACT-P)

    The change for the FACT-P TOI domain (physical and social well-being and prostate specific score) was calculated.

    Time frame: 6 months

  11. Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events (Safety and Tolerability)

    Number of participants with adverse events as a measure of safety and tolerability.

    Time frame: 6 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine
    Osaka, 545-8585, Japan
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 9, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03305224
Lead sponsor
Taro Iguchi, MD, PHD
Collaborators
Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd.
Responsible party
Taro Iguchi, MD, PHD (Principal Investigator, Osaka City University) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Oct 9, 2017
Start date
Oct 27, 2017
Primary completion
Oct 30, 2021 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 31, 2022 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 9, 2021

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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