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CompletedNCT03314298Updated Apr 18, 2018

A Single Dose Trial to Evaluate the Pharmacokinetics of Testosterone and Anastrozole

A Phase 1 interventional study of testosterone anastrozole in Mammographic Density, sponsored by Havah Therapeutics Pty Ltd. Completed at 1 site in Australia. Open to female participants aged 35 Years to 55 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-04-18.

Sponsored by Havah Therapeutics Pty Ltd · Phase 1, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
11
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
35 Years to 55 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

A single dose trial to evaluate the pharmacokinetics of testosterone and anastrozole from subcutaneous testosterone and anastrozole (T+Ai) in premenopausal women

Read the detailed description

The trial is of open label single centre design. The serum concentrations of testosterone and plasma concentrations of anastrozole will be measured in 12 premenopausal women. Participants will be stratified in a 50:50 manner in two BMI (Body Mass Index) groups, \<25 and 25 kg/m2, respectively. There will be a lead group of two participants in whom the serum/plasma concentrations will be examined after the first four weeks, to determine whether the sampling schedule adequately describes the serum/plasma concentration-time profiles or should be adjusted.

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Conditions studied

  • Mammographic Density
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In context

Lead sponsor

Havah Therapeutics Pty Ltd is the lead sponsor of 3 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
35 Years to 55 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Agree to and be capable of understanding and signing an Form.
  2. Patients seeking treatment with Product for the reduction in high mammographic breast density (MBD).
  3. Pre-menopausal levels of Follicular stimulating hormone/Leutinizing hormone/estradiol(follicle stimulating hormone/luteinizing hormone/oestrogen) according to the definition of "pre-menopausal range" for the laboratory involved.
  4. Volpara Density volumetric breast density of ≥15.5% (combined average both breasts)
  5. Age between 35-55 years inclusive.
  6. Body weight between 50-90 kg inclusive.
  7. between 20-30 kg/m2 inclusive.
  8. Good venous access for venepuncture.
  9. In good general health without cardiac, respiratory, or psychiatric disease.
  10. Negative pregnancy test in women of (premenopausal or less than 12 months of amenorrhea , and who have not undergone surgical sterilisation), no more than seven days before the first dose of Investigational Product.
  11. For women of childbearing potential who are sexually active, agreement to use a highly effective, non-hormonal form of (Mirena (TM) allowed) during and for at least six months after completion of treatment with Investigational Product; OR, a fertile male partner willing and able to use effective non-hormonal means of contraception (barrier method of contraception in conjunction with spermicidal jelly, or surgical sterilisation) during and for at least six months after completed dosing Investigational Product.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Presence of breast cancer.
  2. Previous or concomitant other (non-breast, other than skin) within the previous five years.
  3. Diabetes mellitus or glucose intolerance defined as a fasting glucose of ≥ 6 mmol/L.
  4. History of coronary artery disease.
  5. Risk of transmitting or viral hepatitis via infected blood.
  6. Existing testosterone, oestrogen and/or anastrozole treatment.
  7. Concomitant medication which induces or inhibits (Listed in Appendix A).
  8. Current warfarin usage.
  9. Prolonged systemic treatment, inhalation and topical steroids allowed.
  10. Known to any component of Product.
  11. Systemic reproductive hormone replacement therapy.
  12. Systemic hormonal .
  13. Participation in another clinical trial of an Investigational Product within 30 days of entry into the present trial or within 4-5 half-lives of the Investigational Product, whichever is the longer.
  14. Use of any product containing ginseng within 30 days of screening.
  15. Pregnant or lactating women.
  16. Unable to comply with trial requirements.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(12)

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Informed consent

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Investigational drug or device

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It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

Clinically significant

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Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

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.

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.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

CYP3A (CYP3A4) inhibitors and inducers

CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.

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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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
11 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    testosterone anastrozole implant

    testosterone 80mg Anastrozole 4 mg single as a subcutaneous pellet

    Drug: testosterone anastrozole

Interventions

This study also gives Anastrozole. No intervention listed here names it: that was found by reading the record.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. testosterone Cmax

    Peak Plasma Concentration

    Time frame: Day 1, blood samples will be taken pre-dose and at 1, 2, 4, 8 and 12 hours and 9 am in the morning on Days 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 15, 22, 29, 43, 57, 71 and 85.

  2. testosterone AUC

    Area under the plasma concentration versus time curve

    Time frame: Day 1, blood samples will be taken pre-dose and at 1, 2, 4, 8 and 12 hours and 9 am in the morning on Days 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 15, 22, 29, 43, 57, 71 and 85.

  3. testosterone T1/2

    plasma half-life

    Time frame: Day 1, blood samples will be taken pre-dose and at 1, 2, 4, 8 and 12 hours and 9 am in the morning on Days 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 15, 22, 29, 43, 57, 71 and 85.

  4. anastrozole Cmax

    Peak Plasma Concentration

    Time frame: Day 1, blood samples will be taken pre-dose and at 1, 2, 4, 8 and 12 hours and 9 am in the morning on Days 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 15, 22, 29, 43, 57, 71 and 85.

  5. anastrozole AUC

    Area under the plasma concentration versus time curve

    Time frame: Day 1, blood samples will be taken pre-dose and at 1, 2, 4, 8 and 12 hours and 9 am in the morning on Days 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 15, 22, 29, 43, 57, 71 and 85.

  6. anastrozole T1/2

    plasma half-life

    Time frame: Day 1, blood samples will be taken pre-dose and at 1, 2, 4, 8 and 12 hours and 9 am in the morning on Days 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 15, 22, 29, 43, 57, 71 and 85.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events [Safety and Tolerability]

    To assess the safety and tolerability of T+Ai following a single dose of T+Ai by subcutaneous implantation. Biochemical and hematological will be evaluated and the number of participants with abnormal values or adverse events that are related to treatment will be recorded

    Time frame: The outcome measures will be reported weekly until study completion-3 months

  2. dihydrotestosterone metabolism

    To description of the time course of dihydrotestosterone serum concentrations.

    Time frame: 3 months

  3. breast elasticity

    Breast tissue elasticity will be measured by shear wave ultrasound at baseline and on Days 29, 57 and 85. A Supersonic Ultrasound will be carried out by four quadrant analysis of each breast with 6x3mm Q box analyses measured in kPa.

    Time frame: Breast tissue elasticity will be measured by shear wave ultrasound at baseline and on Days 29, 57 and 85

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Study locations

1 site
  • Wellend Health
    Toorak Gardens, South Australia 5065, Australia
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Aug 2017 to primary completion in Apr 2018, 8 months.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Aug 6, 2017
First posted
Oct 19, 2017
StartActual
Aug 14, 2017
Primary completionActual
Apr 17, 2018
CompletionActual
Apr 17, 2018
Last update
Apr 18, 2018
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 18, 2018, 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
NCT03314298
Lead sponsor
Havah Therapeutics Pty Ltd
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 19, 2017
Start date
Aug 14, 2017
Primary completion
Apr 17, 2018
Completion
Apr 17, 2018
Last update
Apr 18, 2018

Study contacts

Stephen N Birrell, Md PhD
principal investigator · Wellend Health

Oversight

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