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RecruitingNCT06689085Updated Nov 6, 2026

52 Week Study + 24-Month Long-Term Extension of Safety, PK, & Efficacy of XYOSTED® for Testosterone Replacement in Male Adolescents With Hypogonadism

A Phase 3 interventional study of Testosterone enanthate in Hypogonadism, Male, sponsored by Halozyme Therapeutics. Recruiting at 22 sites in United States. Open to male participants aged 12 Years to 17 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-06.

Sponsored by Halozyme Therapeutics · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Mar 2025; still recruiting 1 year 8 months later.
Updated Nov 6, 20262 sites addedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
100
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
12 Years to 17 Years
Sex
Male
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Study summary

This is a 52-week open label single arm study + 24-Month long-term safety extension to investigate the effects of XYOSTED, as testosterone replacement therapy, on adolescent males with either primary or secondary hypogonadism.

The study aims to determine the effectiveness of XYOSTED measured by continuation or induction of puberty in addition to XYOSTED dosage, safety and testosterone levels.

Read the detailed description

This is a Phase 3/4, open-label, multicenter study in approximately 100 males 12 to \< 18 years of age with primary or secondary hypogonadism (congenital or acquired). Each participant will be screened for eligibility within 28 days before receiving his first dose of study drug on Day 1. During the Screening period, each participant will have a full clinical examination with pubertal staging, including 2 separate serum total testosterone (TT) measurements obtained in the early morning, where the average (Cavg) will be considered baseline value. Each participant will be categorized as having primary or secondary hypogonadism prior to dosing on Day 1.

Participants meeting all eligibility criteria will be assigned to a starting dose of XYOSTED based on their weight and Targeted Tanner Stage on Day 1. The Targeted Tanner Stage will be determined during Screening by an experienced pediatric endocrinologist.

Participants will have dose adjustments during the study to achieve their Targeted Tanner Stage. Dose adjustments will be based on reviewing the TT concentration between doses (Cmid) by measuring serum TT 14 days after the administration of XYOSTED for participants receiving the Q4W schedule, 7 days after the administration of XYOSTED for participants who are on the Q2W schedule, and 4 days after administration of XYOSTED for participants on the Q1W schedule. Participants will be evaluated for further dose adjustments approximately every 3 months to achieve the desired targeted TT level.

Following the 52-week primary study, participants may join a 24-month long-term safety extension study to continue the evaluation of XYOSTED in this population. Participants will return to the clinic at 6-month intervals for evaluation for clinical evaluations, and laboratory and pharmacokinetic assessments.

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Conditions studied

  • Hypogonadism, Male

Keywords

  • primary hypogonadism
  • secondary hypogonadism
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In context

Eunuchism

75 studies on the registry are indexed under Eunuchism; 21 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 100 is above the median of 60 across 55 interventional studies indexed under Eunuchism.

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Lead sponsor

Halozyme Therapeutics is the lead sponsor of 33 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
12 Years to 17 Years
Sexes eligible
Male
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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.

Inclusion criteria

  1. Diagnosed with a deficiency or absence of endogenous testosterone due to primary or secondary hypogonadism of a known etiology. Children with combined hormone deficiencies are permitted to enroll (but the child must already be receiving treatment for concomitant hormonal deficiencies)
  2. Participants receiving prior testosterone treatment must be receiving a stable dose for at least 12 weeks prior to Screening. Treatment naive participants are permitted to enroll.
  3. Have parent(s) or a legal guardian who will voluntarily provide written for the child to participate in the study
  4. Willing to provide assent for participation in the study
  5. Be a male 12 to \< 18 years of age at the time of consent/assent
  6. Have Legally Authorized Representative who is able to understand and comply with all study procedures and agrees to have the child participate in the study program as outlined in the protocol
  7. Requires chronic pharmacologic support for the initiation and/or continuation of pubertal maturation
  8. Have a (BMI)-for-age greater than the 5th percentile and weigh ≥ 30 kg.
  9. If sexually active with a female partner of , agrees to:

    1. Practice true abstinence including 30 days after the last IP administration, or,
    2. Use 2 adequate forms of highly effective , one of which should be a physical barrier, during the study and for 30 days after the last IP administration.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Has abnormal thyroid function tests at Screening. May supplement per usual clinical practice and rescreen up to two times.
  2. Has suspected or known constitutional growth delay in growth and puberty (CDGP)
  3. Has evidence of possible nutritional or gastrointestinal disorder that may impact growth (e.g., abrupt weight loss within the 3 months prior to Screening, unmanaged celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease)
  4. Has a known allergy or to XYOSTED, or to any of its ingredients (testosterone enanthate and sesame oil)
  5. Participants receiving prior treatment with testosterone who are not on a stable dose for at least 12 weeks prior to Screening.
  6. Has an allergy to foods or products containing sesame seeds or sesame oil
  7. Has Stage 1 hypertension, defined as the average of 2 or more seated right arm BP measurements exceeding the 95th percentile for age, sex, and height, or SBP ≥ 130 mm Hg and/or DBP ≥ 80 mm Hg at Screening or Day 1.
  8. Has a abnormal clinical laboratory test value at Screening, as determined by the Investigator including hematocrit > 48%, or >50% for patients living at high altitude if not receiving testosterone treatment, or hematocrit > 52% if already receiving testosterone treatment.
  9. Has a history of deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism
  10. Has evidence of a clinically significant 12-lead (ECG) abnormality at Screening, as determined by the Investigator
  11. Has a current suspected or diagnosed (and unresected) tumor of the pituitary gland with the exception of Rathke's cleft cyst or a stable non-functioning pituitary microadenoma (ie, lesion size \< 10 mm that has not increased in size over a period of 1 year on repeat imaging), as determined by the Investigator
  12. Has an active or has received treatment for a malignancy within the 12 months before Screening
  13. Is currently receiving antipsychotic medication for any reason or is currently receiving selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medication for depression
  14. Is receiving any other medication or has a condition that would preclude safe participation in the study or confound the evaluation of safety, as determined by the Investigator
  15. Has a history of suicidal behavior (i.e., actions intended to harm oneself), suicidal ideation (i.e., thoughts and plans about suicide), or suicide attempts
  16. Has any affirmative responses on the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) questionnaire to questions #3, #4, or #5 or any affirmative response to questions #1 or #2 within the past 12 months on the suicide ideation questions (first section) OR any affirmative response on the suicidal behavior questions (the second section).
  17. Is currently taking supraphysiologic doses of systemic for more than 3 weeks, except for intermittent short courses of exogenous glucocorticoids as needed for the treatment of asthma
  18. Has received any other compound within 1 month prior to screening or 5 half-lives of the investigational product (whichever is longer)
  19. Has received gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists, aromatase inhibitors, androgens (eg, dehydroepiandrosterone [DHEA]), anabolic steroids such as oxandrolone, or other sex steroids within 12 months before the Screening visit, or would require these treatments at any time during the study.
  20. Receiving cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 or P glycoprotein (P-gp) inhibitors/inducers or medications that are metabolized by or P-gp within 30 days of enrolment.
  21. Has a history of alcohol or drug abuse
  22. Has a history or clinical manifestations of significant renal, hepatic, cardiovascular, metabolic, neurologic, psychiatric, or other conditions that would preclude participation in the study, as determined by the Investigator
  23. Has chronic urticaria or dermatographism
  24. Has 25-hydroxy-vitamin D blood level \< 20 ng/mL. Participants with initial vitamin D blood measurement \< 20 ng/mL may enroll while they receive supplementation per clinical practice
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(11)

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Informed consent

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
100 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Participants

    XYOSTED Injection (Testosterone enanthate) 25 mg / 0.5 mL, 50 mg / 0.5 mL, 75 mg / 0.5 mL, 100 mg / 0.5 mL

    Combination Product: Testosterone enanthate

Interventions

  • Combination productTestosterone enanthate

    XYOSTED 25 mg / 0.5 mL; XYOSTED 50 mg / 0.5 mL; XYOSTED 75 mg / 0.5 mL; XYOSTED 100 mg / 0.5 mL

    Also known as: XYOSTED Injection

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Increase in testosterone, as evaluated using PK parameters

    Time frame: From Enrollment through End of Study Assessments at Week 53

Secondary outcomes

  1. Percentage of participants demonstrating either progression through Tanner Stages of puberty or attainment of Tanner Stage 5 by the end of the study

    Evaluated through clinical//physical examination

    Time frame: End of Study Assessment at Week 53

  2. • Percentage of patients that had an increase in stretched penile length

    Evaluated through clinical//physical examination

    Time frame: End of Study Assessment at Week 53

  3. Change from Screening or Baseline in DEXA bone density for total body less head (TBLH) and PA spine

    Evaluated through DEXA scan using age-appropriate software

    Time frame: End of Study Assessment at Week 53

  4. Change from Screening or Baseline in body composition by DEXA scan

    Evaluated through DEXA scan using age-appropriate software

    Time frame: End of Study Assessment at Week 53

  5. Change from Screening or Baseline in bone age as determined by X-ray

    Evaluated through X-ray using central readers

    Time frame: End of Study Assessment at Week 53

  6. Change from Screening or Baseline in BMI-for-age percentile

    Evaluated through clinical//physical examination

    Time frame: End of Study Assessment at Week 53

  7. • Change from Screening or Baseline in Height Velocity (HV)

    Evaluated through clinical//physical examination

    Time frame: End of Study Assessment at Week 53

Other outcomes

  1. PK endpoints

    Total Testosterone concentration

    Time frame: End of Study Assessment at Week 53

  2. Evaluation of Safety Endpoints including Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events

    Frequency and Severity of TEAEs

    Time frame: End of Study Assessment at Week 53

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Study locations

22 of 22 sites recruiting
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Timeline

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Mar 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2028, 36 months after the start.

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

Registered
Nov 6, 2024
First posted
Nov 14, 2024
StartActual
Mar 7, 2025
Primary completionEst.
Mar 2028
CompletionEst.
Mar 2030
Last update
Nov 6, 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.
Sites
2 sites added
Show 2 added (2 United States)
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Los Angeles, United States
  • University of Virginia School of Medicine · Charlottesville, United States
Nov 6, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Nov 6, 2026
    2 sites added
    Show 2 added (2 United States)
    • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Los Angeles, United States
    • University of Virginia School of Medicine · Charlottesville, United States
    + 1 other change: verification date

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06689085
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 14, 2024
Start date
Mar 7, 2025
Primary completion
Mar 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 6, 2026

Study contacts

Director Clinical Operations, MPH, CPM
Contact
jbitsura@halozyme.com
609-331-1670
Chief Medical Officer, MD, PhD
Contact
ctheuer@halozyme.com
858-344-9400

Oversight

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