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WithdrawnNCT03740945Updated Jul 31, 2020

Effect of Intravaginal Prasterone on Symptoms of VVA in Women Under Treatment With an Aromatase Inhibitor for Breast Cancer

A Phase 3 interventional study of Placebo and Prasterone (DHEA) in Vaginal Atrophy in Breast Cancer Patients, sponsored by EndoCeutics Inc.. Withdrawn. Open to female participants aged 30 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-07-31.

Sponsored by EndoCeutics Inc. · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was withdrawn
Business decision to not perform this study.
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
30 Years to 80 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to confirm the efficacy of intravaginal prasterone (DHEA) on moderate to severe (MS) and most bothersome symptoms (MBS) of vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) due to natural, surgical or treatment-induced menopause, in women with breast cancer who are under treatment with an aromatase inhibitor.

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Conditions studied

  • Vaginal Atrophy in Breast Cancer Patients

Keywords

  • Vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA)
  • Vaginal atrophy
  • Atrophic vaginitis
  • Prasterone
  • DHEA
  • Intrarosa
  • Breast cancer
  • Aromatase inhibitor
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In context

Atrophic Vaginitis

45 studies on the registry are indexed under Atrophic Vaginitis; 7 are open to participants now.

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Lead sponsor

EndoCeutics Inc. is the lead sponsor of 9 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
30 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

Main criteria:

  1. Natural, surgically- or treatment-induced women (non hysterectomized or hysterectomized) with breast cancer (stage 1 or 2) who is currently under treatment with an aromatase inhibitor and will remain on that treatment for the duration of the study.
  2. Women between 30 and 80 years of age
  3. Women having ≤5% of superficial cells on vaginal smear at baseline
  4. Women having a vaginal pH above 5 at baseline
  5. Women who have self-identified moderate or severe symptom(s) of vaginal atrophy

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

Main criteria:

  1. metabolic or endocrine disease (including diabetes mellitus) not controlled by medication
  2. The administration of any drug within 30 days of screening visit
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(3)

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.

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).

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo

    Placebo vaginal ovule daily for 12 weeks

    Drug: Placebo

  • Experimental
    Prasterone

    Prasterone (DHEA) vaginal ovule daily for 12 weeks

    Drug: Prasterone (DHEA)

Interventions

  • DrugPlacebo

    Daily administration of one placebo vaginal ovule at bedtime

  • Daily administration of one prasterone vaginal ovule at bedtime

    Also known as: Intrarosa

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change from Baseline to Week 12 in the Percentage of Superficial Cells

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  2. Change from Baseline to Week 12 in the Percentage of Parabasal Cells

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  3. Change from Baseline to Week 12 in Vaginal pH

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  4. Change from Baseline to Week 12 in Moderate/Severe VVA symptom being Most Bothersome (MBS)

    Time frame: 12 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change from Baseline to Week 12 in Moderate/Severe VVA symptom (not most bothersome)

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  2. Change from Baseline to Week 12 on arousal/lubrication domain of Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) questionnaire

    Individual domain score will be obtained by adding the scores of the individual questions that comprise the domain and multiplying the sum by the domain factor.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  3. Change from Baseline to Week 12 on subjective arousal domain of FSFI

    Individual domain score will be obtained by adding the scores of the individual questions that comprise the domain and multiplying the sum by the domain factor.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  4. Change from Baseline to Week 12 on desire domain of FSFI

    Individual domain score will be obtained by adding the scores of the individual questions that comprise the domain and multiplying the sum by the domain factor.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  5. Change from Baseline to Week 12 on satisfaction domain of FSFI

    Individual domain score will be obtained by adding the scores of the individual questions that comprise the domain and multiplying the sum by the domain factor.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  6. Change from Baseline to Week 12 on orgasm domain of FSFI

    Individual domain score will be obtained by adding the scores of the individual questions that comprise the domain and multiplying the sum by the domain factor.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  7. Change From Baseline to Week 12 in Severity of Vaginal Atrophy as Evaluated From Vaginal Secretions

    Vaginal parameter evaluated at gynecological examination by the physician/gynecologist will be graded as corresponding to none, mild, moderate, or severe atrophy.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  8. Change From Baseline to Week 12 in Severity of Vaginal Atrophy as Evaluated From Vaginal Epithelial Surface Thickness

    Vaginal parameter evaluated at gynecological examination by the physician/gynecologist will be graded as corresponding to none, mild, moderate, or severe atrophy.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  9. Change From Baseline to Week 12 in Severity of Vaginal Atrophy as Evaluated From Vaginal Epithelial Integrity

    Vaginal parameter evaluated at gynecological examination by the physician/gynecologist will be graded as corresponding to none, mild, moderate, or severe atrophy.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  10. Change From Baseline to Week 12 in Severity of Vaginal Atrophy as Evaluated From Vaginal Color

    Vaginal parameter evaluated at gynecological examination by the physician/gynecologist will be graded as corresponding to none, mild, moderate, or severe atrophy.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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References and documents

Publications

  • Ke Y, Labrie F, Gonthier R, Simard JN, Bergeron D, Martel C, Vaillancourt M, Montesino M, Lavoie L, Archer DF, Balser J, Moyneur E; other participating Members of the Prasterone Clinical Research Group. Serum levels of sex steroids and metabolites following 12 weeks of intravaginal 0.50% DHEA administration. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2015 Nov;154:186-96. doi: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2015.08.016. Epub 2015 Aug 17. PubMed 26291918 ↗
  • Labrie F, Derogatis L, Archer DF, Koltun W, Vachon A, Young D, Frenette L, Portman D, Montesino M, Cote I, Parent J, Lavoie L, Beauregard A, Martel C, Vaillancourt M, Balser J, Moyneur E; Members of the VVA Prasterone Research Group. Effect of Intravaginal Prasterone on Sexual Dysfunction in Postmenopausal Women with Vulvovaginal Atrophy. J Sex Med. 2015 Dec;12(12):2401-12. doi: 10.1111/jsm.13045. Epub 2015 Nov 23. PubMed 26597311 ↗
  • Labrie F, Montesino M, Archer DF, Lavoie L, Beauregard A, Cote I, Martel C, Vaillancourt M, Balser J, Moyneur E; other participating Members of the Prasterone Clinical Research Group. Influence of treatment of vulvovaginal atrophy with intravaginal prasterone on the male partner. Climacteric. 2015;18(6):817-25. doi: 10.3109/13697137.2015.1077508. Epub 2015 Oct 30. PubMed 26517756 ↗
  • Labrie F, Archer DF, Koltun W, Vachon A, Young D, Frenette L, Portman D, Montesino M, Cote I, Parent J, Lavoie L, Beauregard A, Martel C, Vaillancourt M, Balser J, Moyneur E; VVA Prasterone Research Group. Efficacy of intravaginal dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) on moderate to severe dyspareunia and vaginal dryness, symptoms of vulvovaginal atrophy, and of the genitourinary syndrome of menopause. Menopause. 2016 Mar;23(3):243-56. doi: 10.1097/GME.0000000000000571. PubMed 26731686 ↗
  • Martel C, Labrie F, Archer DF, Ke Y, Gonthier R, Simard JN, Lavoie L, Vaillancourt M, Montesino M, Balser J, Moyneur E; other participating members of the Prasterone Clinical Research Group. Serum steroid concentrations remain within normal postmenopausal values in women receiving daily 6.5mg intravaginal prasterone for 12 weeks. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2016 May;159:142-53. doi: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2016.03.016. Epub 2016 Mar 10. PubMed 26972555 ↗
  • Montesino M, Labrie F, Archer DF, Zerhouni J, Cote I, Lavoie L, Beauregard A, Martel C, Vaillancourt M, Moyneur E, Balser J. Evaluation of the acceptability of intravaginal prasterone ovule administration using an applicator. Gynecol Endocrinol. 2016;32(3):240-5. doi: 10.3109/09513590.2015.1110140. Epub 2016 Jan 6. PubMed 26634942 ↗
  • Archer DF, Labrie F, Bouchard C, Portman DJ, Koltun W, Cusan L, Labrie C, Cote I, Lavoie L, Martel C, Balser J; VVA Prasterone Group. Treatment of pain at sexual activity (dyspareunia) with intravaginal dehydroepiandrosterone (prasterone). Menopause. 2015 Sep;22(9):950-63. doi: 10.1097/GME.0000000000000428. PubMed 25734980 ↗
  • Labrie F, Archer DF, Martel C, Vaillancourt M, Montesino M. Combined data of intravaginal prasterone against vulvovaginal atrophy of menopause. Menopause. 2017 Nov;24(11):1246-1256. doi: 10.1097/GME.0000000000000910. PubMed 28640161 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Nov 2018 to primary completion in Dec 2019, 12 months.

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Registered
Nov 7, 2018
First posted
Nov 14, 2018
StartActual
Nov 6, 2018
Primary completionActual
Dec 5, 2019
CompletionActual
Dec 5, 2019
Last update
Jul 31, 2020
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 Jul 31, 2020, 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
NCT03740945
Lead sponsor
EndoCeutics Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 14, 2018
Start date
Nov 6, 2018
Primary completion
Dec 5, 2019
Completion
Dec 5, 2019
Last update
Jul 31, 2020

Study contacts

Claude Labrie, M.D., Ph.D.
study chair · Endoceutics, Inc., Quebec, Canada
David F Archer, M.D.
principal investigator · Jones Institute, Norfolk VA 23507
Sheryl Kingsberg, Ph.D.
principal investigator · MacDonald Women's Hospital, Cleveland, OH 44106 USA

Oversight

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