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Active, not recruitingNCT04065269ATARIUpdated Feb 20, 2026

ATr Inhibitor in Combination With Olaparib/Durvalumab (MEDI4736) in Gynaecological Cancers With ARId1A Loss or no Loss

A Phase 2 interventional study of Ceralasertib and Olaparib in Gynaecological Cancers, sponsored by Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom. Active, not recruiting at 9 sites in 2 countries. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-02-20.

Sponsored by Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Aug 2026, 3 months ago, but the record still lists the study as active, not recruiting.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
174
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
Female
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Study summary

ATARI trial tests the ATR inhibitor drug ceralasertib (AZD6738) alone and in combination with either a PARP inhibitor drug called olaparib, or an anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy called durvalumab (MEDI4736) in patients with relapsed gynaecological cancers to assess the response in groups of patients selected based on their cancer cell subtype and the presence of an abnormality in the ARID1A gene.

Read the detailed description

ATARI is a multi-centre, open-label, multiple two-stage parallel cohorts phase II clinical trial for patients with relapsed gynaecological cancers, with ARID1A-deficient ('loss') and "no loss."

The trial tests the ATR inhibitor drug ceralasertib (AZD6738) alone and in combination with either a PARP inhibitor drug called olaparib, or an anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy called durvalumab (MEDI4736) to assess the response in groups of patients selected based on their cancer cell subtype and the presence of an abnormality in ARID1A.

The treatment groups are: 1A - Women with clear cell subtype with (ovarian/uterus) ARID1A loss treated with ceralasertib. 1B - Women with clear cell subtype with (ovarian/uterus) ARID1A loss treated with ceralasertib and olaparib. 2 - Women with clear cell subtype (ovarian/uterus) with no ARID1A loss treated with AZD6738 and olaparib. 3 - Women with other rare gynaecological cancers (carcinosarcoma, cervical, endometrioid type) irrespective of ARID1A loss treated with ceralasertib and olaparib. 4 - Women with endometrial cancers (serous, clear cell, endometroid, carcinosarcoma) with ARID1A loss treated with ceralasertib and durvalumab. 5 - Women with endometrial cancers (serous, clear cell, endometroid, carcinosarcoma) with no ARID1A loss treated with ceralasertib and durvalumab.

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Conditions studied

  • Gynaecological Cancers

Keywords

  • Clear cell ovarian carcinoma
  • Clear cell endometrial carcinoma
  • Endometrioid carcinoma
  • Carcinosarcoma
  • Cervical carcinoma
  • ARID1A
  • Endometrial cancer
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In context

Carcinoma, Endometrioid

46 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Endometrioid; 11 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 174 is above the median of 79 across 36 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Endometrioid.

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Lead sponsor

Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom is the lead sponsor of 113 studies on the registry; 27 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. confirmed progressive or recurrent gynaecological carcinomas of the following histological subtypes:

    Cohorts 1A, 1B, 2 and 3:

    • Clear cell (Ovarian, endometrial or endometriosis-related, (>50% clear cell carcinoma with no serious differentiation)
    • Endometrioid (ovarian, endometrial or endometriosis-related)
    • Cervical (adenocarcinomas or squamous)
    • Carcinosarcomas (ovarian or endometrial)

    Cohorts 4 and 5:

    • Endometrial carcinomas (serous, clear cell, endometrioid, carcinosarcoma) Note: patients who have an original diagnosis based on cytology only will not be eligible for entry into the study unless a confirming above histology is performed
  2. Histological tissue specimen (tissue block or 8-10 unstained slides) must be available (specimen can be the sample at diagnosis or taken at relapse). Otherwise, a biopsy must be carried out to obtain sufficient tissue for histological assessment
  3. Evidence of radiological disease progression since last systemic anti-cancer therapy and prior to trial entry
  4. Patients who have progressed after ≥1 prior platinum containing regimen. Platinum-based therapy does not need to be the last treatment prior to study entry. For Cohorts 1A, 1B, 2 and 3, patients who have disease progression within 6 months of last dose of a platinum-containing regimen, no more than two further are permitted prior to trial entry
  5. Patients entering Cohorts 4 or 5 must have had prior /anti-PD-L1/anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapy treatment, with a minimum duration of treatment is 6 weeks. Other previous immunotherapy treatments may be permissible following discussion with the Chief Investigator and ICR-CTSU. Patients who experienced toxicity leading to permanent discontinuation of prior immunotherapy are ineligible.

    • All AEs while receiving prior immunotherapy must have completely resolved or resolved to baseline prior to screening for this study.
    • Must not have experienced a ≥Grade 3 immune related AE or an immune related neurologic or ocular AE of any grade while receiving prior immunotherapy. NOTE: Patients with endocrine AE of ≤Grade 2 are permitted to enrol if they are stably maintained on appropriate replacement therapy and are asymptomatic.
    • Must not have required the use of additional other than for the management of an AE, not have experienced recurrence of an AE if re-challenged, and not currently require maintenance doses of > 10 mg prednisone or equivalent per day.
  6. Body weight >30kg (Cohorts 4 and 5 only)
  7. by criteria v1.1, which can be accurately assessed at baseline by CT (or MRI where CT is contradicted or unclear). Patients with CA125 progression in the absence of measurable disease will NOT be eligible
  8. performance status 0 or 1 with no deterioration over the previous 2 weeks
  9. > 16 weeks
  10. Adequate hepatic, bone marrow, coagulation and renal function as defined by the following values within 14 days prior to starting treatment:

    All cohorts:

    • (ANC) ≥ 1.5 x 109/L;
    • count ≥ 100 x 109/L with no platelet transfusion in the past 28 days
    • Total ≤1.5 x (where bilirubin rise > 1.5 x ULN due to Gilbert's syndrome a conjugated bilirubin ≤1.5 x ULN is required)
    • (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤2.5 x ULN if no demonstrable liver or ≤5 times ULN if patient has documented liver metastases

    Cohort 1A, Cohort 4 and Cohort 5:

    • ≥9.0 g/dL with no blood transfusion in the past 14 days
    • (GFR) ≥45 mL/min (estimated using equation, MDRD, 24hr urine collection as appropriate)

    Cohort 1B, Cohort 2 and Cohort 3:

    • Haemoglobin ≥10.0 g/dL with no blood transfusion in the past 14 days
    • Glomerular filtration rate ≥51 mL/min (estimated using Cockcroft-Gault equation, MDRD, 24hr urine collection as appropriate)
  11. No significant medical illness which in the opinion of the Investigator would preclude entry to ATARI
  12. Women of who are confirmed NOT to be pregnant. This should be evidenced by a negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to start of trial treatment (cohort 4 and 5 must be serum at screening). Patients will be considered to be not of child-bearing potential if they are:

    • - defined as aged more than 50 years and amenorrhoeic for at least 12 months following cessation of all exogenous hormonal treatments, OR women under 50 years old who have been amenorrhoeic for at least 12 months following cessation of all exogenous hormonal treatments and have serum follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH) and plasma oestradiol levels in the post-menopausal range for the institution
    • Able to provide documentation of irreversible surgical sterilisation by hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy or bilateral salpingectomy but not tubal ligation
    • Radiation or chemotherapy-induced oophorectomy or menopause with > 1 year since last menses
  13. Patients with prior synchronous tumours or history of prior are eligible provided there is biopsy evidence that the disease measurable on CT and/or MRI is of the histological subtypes stated in 1
  14. Willingness to commit to scheduled visits, treatments plans, laboratory tests and study procedures
  15. Able to swallow, absorb, retain oral medication
  16. Able to provide written, Exclusion Criteria
  17. Patients receiving, or having received

    • Cohort 1A, Cohort 4 and Cohort 5: Prior treatment with ATR inhibitor
    • Cohort 1B, Cohort 2 and Cohort 3: Prior treatment with ATR or PARP inhibitors
  18. Patients receiving, or having received:

    • cytotoxic treatment for their malignancy within 21 days prior to Cycle 1 Day 1
    • exposure to a small molecule IP within 30 days or 5 half-lives (whichever is longer) prior to Cycle 1 Day 1. The minimum for immunotherapy is 42 days
    • treatment with bevacizumab within 30 days prior to Cycle 1 Day 1
    • palliative radiotherapy within 21 days prior to Cycle 1 Day 1 (with the exception of patients receiving radiation to more than 30% of the bone marrow or with a wide field of radiation within 4 weeks of the first dose of study treatment). Patients can receive bisphosphonates or denosumab for bone metastases, before and during the study as long as these were started at least 4 weeks prior to commencing study treatment.
  19. Treatment with any other medicinal product within the 4 weeks prior to trial entry
  20. Receiving, or having received, concomitant medications, herbal supplements and/or foods that are strong or moderate inhibitors or inducers of and/or CYP1A2 for cohorts 1B, 2 and 3, and strong inhibitors or inducers of CYP3A4 and/or CYP1A2 for cohorts 1A, 4 and 5, sensitive CYP3A4 and/or CYP1A2 substrates or CYP3A4 and/or CYP1A2 substrates with a narrow therapeutic index that significantly modulate CYP3A4 and/or CYP1A2 or P-gp activity (washout period 5 half-lives or three weeks for St. John's Wort). Note these include common azole antifungals, macrolide antibiotics and other medications (Refer to Sections 22, 23 \& 24 and Appendix A6 for further details)
  21. Pregnant or lactating women.
  22. Women of childbearing age and potential who are not willing to use one highly effective form of AND a condom as detailed in Section 5.5.1
  23. Any other malignancy which has been active or treated within the past three years, with the exception of cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia and non-melanoma skin cancer
  24. Clinical/radiological evidence of bowel obstruction (e.g. hospitalisation) or symptoms of sub-acute bowel obstruction within 6 weeks prior to trial entry
  25. Any haematuria (as deemed by the investigator)
  26. With the exception of alopecia, any unresolved toxicities from prior therapy should be no greater than Grade 2 at trial entry
  27. Clinically significant cardiac disease currently or within the last 6 months including:

    a. Pre-existing arrhythmia: i. Mean resting >470 msec obtained from 3 (ECGs) performed 2-5 minutes apart at study screening (within 14 days prior to Cycle 1 Day 1) using the Fredericia formula ii. Clinically important abnormalities in rhythm, conduction or morphology of resting ECG (including complete left bundle-branch block, third degree heart block) b. Any factor increasing the risk of QTc prolongation or arrhythmia, including: i. Hypokalaemia ii. Congenital long QT syndrome iii. Immediate family history of long QT syndrome or unexplained sudden death below the age of 40 years c. Unstable angina pectoris d. Acute myocardial infarction e. Unstable cardiac arrhythmias f. Cardiac failure i. Known reduced \<55% ii. (NYHA) class II, III or IV cardiac failure g. Uncontrolled hypertension (≥ grade 2) requiring clinical intervention (Cohort 4 and Cohort 5 only)

  28. Clinically relevant orthostatic hypotension
  29. Patients who have a diagnosis of ataxia telangiectasia
  30. Major surgery within 4 weeks prior to starting trial drug (excluding placement of vascular access) or minor surgery (excluding tumour biopsies) within 2 weeks of starting trial.Local surgery of isolated lesions for palliative intent is acceptable
  31. Previous allogenic bone marrow transplant or double umbilical cord blood transplantation (dUCBT)
  32. Patients with spinal cord compression unless considered to have received definitive treatment for this and evidence of clinically stable disease for 28 days
  33. Known or , unless asymptomatic, treated (with no evidence of progression since completion of CNS-directed therapy), presence of disease outside the CNS and stable off steroids for at least 4 weeks prior to registration
  34. Known to investigational drugs or
  35. Receiving, or having received during the four weeks prior to starting trial drug, corticosteroids at a dose >10mg prednisolone/day or equivalent for any reason
  36. Any haemopoietic growth factors (e.g., G-CSF, GM-CSF) and blood transfusions within 14 days prior to trial entry. Use of erytropoeitin is not permitted for 4 weeks prior to Cycle 1 Day 1 and for the duration of the study
  37. As judged by the Investigator, any evidence of severe or uncontrolled systemic diseases that places the patient at unacceptable risk of toxicity or non-compliance e.g., severe hepatic impairment, extensive interstitial lung disease on high resolution CT scan (bilateral, diffuse, parenchymal lung disease), uncontrolled chronic renal diseases (glomerulonephritis, nephritic syndrome, Fanconi Syndrome or Renal tubular acidosis), current unstable or uncompensated respiratory or cardiac conditions, active bleeding diatheses or active infection including , , and immunocompromised patients e.g. patients who are known to be serologically positive for (HIV). Screening for chronic conditions is not required
  38. Judgment by the Investigator that the patient is unsuitable to participate in the study and/or the patient is unlikely to comply with study procedures, restrictions and requirements
  39. nausea and vomiting, chronic gastrointestinal diseases or previous significant bowel resection, with clinically significant sequelae that would preclude adequate absorption of study drug
  40. Patients with uncontrolled seizures
  41. Active infection requiring systemic antibiotics, antifungal or antiviral drugs
  42. Patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)/acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), or with features suggestive of MDS/AML
  43. Concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled medical condition (e.g., severe , severe Parkinson's disease, active inflammatory bowel disease) or psychiatric condition (e.g. psychiatric disorder prohibiting obtaining informed consent)
  44. Any to the combination anti-cancer agent (ceralasertib/olaparib or ceralasertib/durvalumab) as per local prescribing information
  45. Patients unable to swallow orally administered medication
  46. Patients in receipt of any within 30 days prior to study entry or within 30 days of receiving study treatment. Note: Patients, if enrolled, should not receive live vaccine whilst receiving study drug and up to 30 days after the last dose of study drug.
  47. Patients with a confirmed COVID-19 infection by PCR test who have not made a full recovery

    In addition to the above and specific for Cohorts 4 and 5 only:

  48. Any concurrent chemotherapy, IP, biological, or hormonal therapy for cancer treatment. Concurrent use of hormonal therapy for non-cancer-related conditions (e.g., hormone replacement therapy) is acceptable.
  49. Persisting (>4 weeks) severe pancytopenia due to previous therapy rather than disease (ANC \<0.5 x 109/L or platelets \<50 x 109/L)
  50. History of organ transplant that requires use of immunosuppressive medications including, but not limited to systemic corticosteroids at doses >10mg/day of prednisone or equivalent, methotrexate, azathioprine and tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) blockers. Use of immunosuppressive medications for the management of IMP-related AEs is acceptable
  51. Active or prior documented or inflammatory disease within the past 3 years (including, but not limited to inflammatory bowel disease [e.g., Crohn's disease or colitis], diverticulitis [with the exception of diverticulosis], systemic lupus erythematosus, Sarcoidosis syndrome, Wegener syndrome, Hashimoto syndrome, hyperthyroidism, Sjogren's syndrome, glomerulonephritis, multiple sclerosis, vasculitis, rheumatoid arthritis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, pneumonitis, organising pneumonitis, hepatitis, sarcoidosis, active tuberculosis.

The following are exceptions to this criterion:

  • Patients with vitiligo or alopecia, patients with hypothyroidism (e.g., following Hashimoto syndrome) stable on hormone replacement. Any chronic skin condition that does not require systemic therapy, patients without active disease in the last 5 years may be included but only after consultation with the ATARI Chief Investigator. Patients with celiac disease controlled by diet alone.

    52. History of another primary malignancy except for:

  • Malignancy treated with curative intent and with no known active disease ≥5 years before the first dose of the study drug and of low potential risk for recurrence
  • Adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer or lentigo maligna without evidence of disease
  • Adequately treated carcinoma in situ without evidence of disease 53. History of active primary immunodeficiency 54. Current or prior use of immunosuppressive medication within 14 days prior to the first dose of durvalumab. The following are exceptions to this criterion:
  • Intranasal, inhaled, topical steroids or local steroid injections (e.g., intra articular injection)
  • Systemic corticoids at physiologic doses not to exceed 10mg/day of predisone or its equivalent
  • Steroids as premedication for hypersensitivity reactions (e.g., CT scan medication)
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(45)

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.

Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

Line of therapy

A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.

“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.

PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors

PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.

PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

RECIST

The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.

“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.

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.

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.

Metastases

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

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).

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.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.

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.

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.

CTCAE grade

The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.

1
Mild.
2
Moderate.
3
Severe.
4
Life-threatening.
5
Death due to the event.

“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

ECG (electrocardiogram)

A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

Leptomeningeal disease

Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.

Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.

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.

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.

Excipients

The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

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.

Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

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.

Live vaccines

Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
174 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    1A: ceralasertib (AZD6738)

    Women with relapsed ovarian (fallopian tube / primary peritoneal) and endometrial (uterus) clear cell carcinomas with loss of ARID1A expression treated with single agent AZD6738.

    Drug: Ceralasertib

  • Experimental
    1B: ceralasertib (AZD6738) + olaparib

    In second stage of trial, opening of this cohort depends on response rate in cohort 1A during first stage of trial. Women with relapsed ovarian (fallopian tube / primary peritoneal) and endometrial (uterus) clear cell carcinomas with loss of ARID1A expression treated with AZD6738 in combination with olaparib.

    Drug: Ceralasertib · Drug: Olaparib

  • Experimental
    2: ceralasertib (AZD6738) + olaparib

    Women with relapsed ovarian (fallopian tube / primary peritoneal) and endometrial (uterus) clear cell carcinomas with NO loss of ARID1A expression treated with AZD6738 in combination with olaparib.

    Drug: Ceralasertib · Drug: Olaparib

  • Experimental
    3: ceralasertib (AZD6738) + olaparib

    Women with other rare relapsed gynaecological cancers (endometrioid ovarian carcinoma, endometrioid endometrial carcinoma, cervical adenocarcinoma, cervical squamous, ovarian carcinosarcoma and endometrial carcinosarcoma) irrespective of ARID1A status, treated with AZD6738 in combination with olaparib.

    Drug: Ceralasertib · Drug: Olaparib

  • Experimental
    4: ceralasertib (AZD6738) + durvalumab

    Women with endometrial cancers (serous, clear cell, endometroid, carcinosarcoma) with ARID1A loss.

    Drug: Ceralasertib · Drug: Durvalumab

  • Experimental
    5: ceralasertib (AZD6738) + durvalumab

    Women with endometrial cancers (serous, clear cell, endometroid, carcinosarcoma) with NO loss of ARID1A.

    Drug: Ceralasertib · Drug: Durvalumab

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Confirmed overall objective response rate (complete or partial response) as defined by RECIST version 1.1.

    A patient will be said to have had an overall objective response if they have a complete/partial response as assessed radiologically according to RECIST 1.1 at any point during trial treatment. A second scan to confirm response will be taken ≥ 4 weeks after the first scan showing an objective response.

    Time frame: From start of treatment until treatment discontinuation - minimum follow-up of 16 weeks (if not progressed earlier), up to max study period (estimated 36 months).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Disease control rate

    The proportion of patients experiencing complete or partial response, or stable disease lasting at least 16 weeks from start of treatment as assessed radiologically by RECIST version 1.1.

    Time frame: From start of treatment until treatment discontinuation - minimum follow-up of 16 weeks (if not progressed earlier), up to max study period (estimated 36 months).

  2. Duration of disease control

    Length of maintained response, measured according to RECIST v1.1

    Time frame: From start of treatment until treatment discontinuation - minimum follow-up of 16 weeks (if not progressed earlier), up to max study period (estimated 36 months).

  3. Progression Free Survival (PFS)

    Measured according to RECIST v1.1 or death. Time to last tumour assessment will be used if patient has not progressed or died, and PFS time for the patient will be considered censored. PFS will be used to calculate the proportion of patients alive and free of progression at 6 months.

    Time frame: From start of treatment until progression or death, whatever occurs first - estimated 6-9 months, up to max study period (36 months).

  4. Time to Progression (TTP)

    Measured according to RECIST v 1.1 or clinical progression of disease. Time to last tumour assessment will be used if patient has not progressed, and the patient will be considered censored. If the patient has died without prior progression, the patient will be censored at the date of death. Death will not count as a TTP event.

    Time frame: From start of treatment until disease progression - estimated 6-9 months, up to max study period (36 months)

  5. Proportion of patients experiencing drug interruption, reduction or discontinuation due to drug related adverse events

    Adverse events thought to be related to drug will be graded according to NCI-CTCAE version 5.0, and coded using MedDRA (current version). Any dose reductions and delays in administration of drug due to toxicity will also be collected.

    Time frame: Assessed throughout the treatment period, up to and including the 30-day follow-up period - estimated 7 months, up to max study period (36 months).

  6. Overall Survival (OS)

    Defined by the time from start of treatment until death

    Time frame: From start of treatment until death - estimated 9 months, up to max study period (36 months).

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Study locations

9 sites
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References and documents

Publications

  • Smith G, Alholm Z, Coleman RL, Monk BJ. DNA Damage Repair Inhibitors-Combination Therapies. Cancer J. 2021 Nov-Dec 01;27(6):501-505. doi: 10.1097/PPO.0000000000000561. PubMed 34904813 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Nov 2019 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Aug 2026, 81 months after the start.

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

Registered
Aug 1, 2019
First posted
Aug 22, 2019
StartActual
Nov 27, 2019
Primary completionEst.
Aug 2026
CompletionEst.
Aug 2026
Last update
Feb 20, 2026
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 Feb 20, 2026, 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
NCT04065269
Collaborators
Cancer Research UK, AstraZeneca
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 22, 2019
Start date
Nov 27, 2019
Primary completion
Aug 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Aug 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 20, 2026

Study contacts

Susana Banerjee
principal investigator · Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Oversight

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