A Phase 2 interventional study of Relacorilant and Nab-paclitaxel in Adenocarcinoma and Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, sponsored by Corcept Therapeutics. Recruiting at 20 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-25.
Sponsored by Corcept Therapeutics · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a 2-part, Phase 2 study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, dosing, pharmacokinetics (PK), and efficacy of relacorilant in combination with nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine in chemotherapy-naïve patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC).
This study will include 2 parts. In Part 1 (dose finding), approximately 6 patients will be enrolled to individual dose-finding cohorts. Cohorts will receive various dose concentrations of relacorilant, nab-paclitaxel, and gemcitabine at various dosing schedules. In all dose-finding cohorts, relacorilant will be administered orally under fed conditions, once daily for 3 days on the day before (excluding Cycle 1 Day -1), the day of, and the day after nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine. Enrollment will be paused after each cohort has been filled until the safety review committee (SRC) provides recommendations. If maximum tolerated dose (MTD) criteria are not met in a cohort, then either a dose-finding cohort at a more intense dose and/or schedule may be enrolled, or a dose and schedule at/below the MTD may be selected as the optimal dose and schedule, and Part 2 may be initiated. If MTD criteria are met, then a dose-finding cohort at a less intense dose and/or schedule may be enrolled, or dose-finding may end without proceeding to Part 2.
In Part 2 (expansion), each patient will receive the optimal dose and schedule of relacorilant, nab-paclitaxel, and gemcitabine as identified in Part 1. Analysis of Part 2 will include data for patients from Part 1 who were enrolled in the optimal dose and schedule used in Part 2.
57 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal; 10 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 80 is above the median of 72 across 44 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal.
Browse Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal studies →Corcept Therapeutics is the lead sponsor of 73 studies on the registry; 3 are open to participants now.
Of its 32 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 9 (28%) have results posted.
Compared within Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Adenocarcinoma. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →
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Exclusion Criteria:
Prior treatment as follows:
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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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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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Excipients
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
The patient will receive relacorilant administered orally under fed conditions, once daily for 3 consecutive days on the day before (excluding Cycle 1 Day -1), the day of, and the day after nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine intravenous (IV) infusions. Various dose levels and dosing schedules of relacorilant, nab-paclitaxel, and gemcitabine will be evaluated. On days when relacorilant, nab-paclitaxel, and gemcitabine are administered, relacorilant will be administered first, then nab-paclitaxel, and gemcitabine last.
Drug: Relacorilant · Drug: Nab-paclitaxel · Drug: Gemcitabine
Relacorilant will be administered as capsules for oral dosing.
Also known as: CORT125134
Nab-paclitaxel will be administered via IV infusion.
Gemcitabine will be administered via IV infusion.
Percent of Patients who Experience Dose Limiting Toxicity (DLT) (Part 1)
The percentage of patients with a DLT is used to estimate maximum tolerated dose (MTD), the most intense dose/schedule among those evaluated at which \<33% of patients experience DLT.
Time frame: Up to 28 days after the first dose of study treatment
Number of Patients with 1 or More Adverse Events (AEs) Leading to Study Drug Discontinuations or Dose Modifications (Part 1)
Time frame: Time of first dose up to 30 days after last dose
Progression-Free Survival (PFS) (Part 2)
To evaluate PFS as the time from enrollment until first documented progressive disease (PD) by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1 as determined by the Investigator, or death due to any cause, whichever comes first.
Time frame: From date of enrollment until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever comes first, assessed up to 12 months
Maximum Plasma Concentration (Cmax) of Relacorilant (Part 1 and Part 2)
Time frame: Pre- and postdose on Cycle 1 Day 15 (each cycle is 28 days)
Area Under the Plasma Concentration-time Curve (AUC) of Relacorilant (Part 1 and Part 2)
Time frame: Pre- and postdose on Cycle 1 Day 15 (each cycle is 28 days)
Cmax of Nab-paclitaxel (Part 1 and Part 2)
Time frame: At serial timepoints postdose on Cycle 1 Day 15 (each cycle is 28 days)
AUC of Nab-paclitaxel (Part 1 and Part 2)
Time frame: At serial timepoints postdose on Cycle 1 Day 15 (each cycle is 28 days)
Overall Survival (OS) (Part 2)
Time frame: From date of enrollment until the date of death from any cause, whichever comes first, assessed up to 19 months
Best Overall Response (BOR) (Part 2)
Time frame: From date of enrollment until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever comes first, assessed up to 12 months
Objective Response Rate (ORR) (Part 2)
To evaluate the proportion of patients with measurable disease at Baseline who attain complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) by RECIST version 1.1.
Time frame: From date of enrollment until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever comes first, assessed up to 12 months
Duration of Response (DoR) (Part 2)
To evaluate DOR as the time from the first CR or PR to first documented PD or death, whichever comes first.
Time frame: From date of first objective response until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever comes first, assessed up to 12 months
Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR) (Part 2)
To evaluate clinical benefit rate as the proportion of patients who attain CR, PR, or stable disease (SD) at Week 24 as per RECIST version 1.1.
Time frame: Week 24
Cancer Antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) Kinetics (Part 2)
To evaluate change in CA19-9 from baseline in patients who had an elevated baseline CA19-9 and change in CA19-9 at Weeks 4, 8, and 16 from baseline in all patients.
Time frame: Baseline to Weeks 4, 8, and 16
Number of Patients with 1 or More Adverse Events (Part 2)
Time frame: Time of first dose up to 30 days after last dose
Number of Patients with Treatment-related Adverse Events (Part 2)
Time frame: Time of first dose up to 30 days after last dose
Number of Patients with Adverse Events by Severity (Part 2)
Time frame: Time of first dose up to 30 days after last dose
Number of Patients With 1 or More Adverse Events Leading to Study Drug Discontinuation (Part 2)
Time frame: Time of first dose up to 30 days after last dose
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Started Jan 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Sep 2027, 20 months after the start.
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Studies of the drugs tested here: Relacorilant · Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel · Gemcitabine
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