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RecruitingNCT07723248Himalayas-1Updated Sep 3, 2026

A Study to Learn About the Investigational Drug Rinzimetostat (ORIC-944) in Patients With mCRPC Who Were Previously Treated With Abiraterone Acetate (Himalayas-1)

A Phase 3 interventional study of Rinzimetostat and Darolutamide in Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer, sponsored by ORIC Pharmaceuticals. Recruiting at 7 sites in United States. Open to male participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-03.

Sponsored by ORIC Pharmaceuticals · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
600
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
Male
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Study summary

Himalayas-1 is a randomized, open-label, global, multicenter phase 3 study evaluating whether the combination of rinzimetostat with darolutamide is more effective compared to physician's choice of control; ARPI (darolutamide or enzalutamide) or docetaxel for treating patients with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who were previously treated with abiraterone acetate.

The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate superiority in radiographic progression free survival (rPFS) of the investigational arm of rinzimetostat + darolutamide combination versus physician's choice of control: ARPI (darolutamide or enzalutamide) or docetaxel.

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Conditions studied

  • Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer

Keywords

  • prostate cancer
  • advanced prostate cancer
  • hormone dependent malignancy
  • hormone resistant
  • relapsed
  • refractory
  • androgen receptor (AR) signaling
  • metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC)
  • androgen pathway modulator-resistant (APMR)
  • metastatic castration sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC)
  • androgen pathway modulator-naïve/sensitive (APMN/S)
  • polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2)-controlled dysregulation
  • embryonic ectoderm development (EED)
  • enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2)
  • ORIC-944
  • rinzimetostat
  • mevrometostat
  • darolutamide
  • enzalutamide
  • docetaxel
  • abiraterone
  • abiraterone acetate
  • efficacy
  • safety
  • open-label
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Who can participate

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate without small cell features
  • Progressive disease in the setting of surgical or medical castration with evidence of disease progression on treatment with abiraterone acetate in the mCSPC setting or first line mCRPC setting is required
  • Metastatic disease in bone documented on bone scan, or in soft tissue documented on CT/MRI scan
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1
  • Adequate organ function

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Prior treatment for prostate cancer at any stage with cytotoxic chemotherapy, radioligand therapy (ie, 177Lu -PSMA-617, radium-223), ARPIs including apalutamide, darolutamide, and enzalutamide, PARP monotherapy or other systemic anticancer treatment (approved drugs or experimental compounds such as, antibody therapy, immunotherapy, gene or cell therapy, angiogenesis inhibitors, CDK4/6 inhibitors, PRC2 inhibitors) with the following exceptions:

    1. Treatment with first-generation antiandrogen agents (eg, bicalutamide, flutamide, nilutamide), but must be discontinued prior to the first dose of study medication
    2. Docetaxel treatment is allowed for mCSPC, as long as no signs of failure or disease progression occurred during treatment or within 3 months of treatment completion
  • Any other anticancer therapy (drug or vaccine which does not meet exclusion criterion 1 above) within 28 days or 5 half-lives (whichever is longer) prior to randomization
  • Known or suspected brain metastasis or active leptomeningeal disease
  • Clinically significant cardiovascular disease defined as:
  • Any medical (including active or clinically significant bacterial, fungal, or viral infection) or psychiatric condition including recent (within the past year) or active suicidal ideation/behavior or laboratory abnormality that may increase the risk of study participation or, in the investigator's judgment, make the patient inappropriate for the study
  • Active inflammatory gastrointestinal disease, chronic diarrhea, or previous gastric resection or lap-band surgery are excluded
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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
600 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Investigational Arm

    Rinzimetostat + darolutamide

    Drug: Rinzimetostat · Drug: Darolutamide

  • Active comparator
    Physician's Choice

    Control Arm

    Drug: Darolutamide · Drug: Enzalutamide · Drug: Docetaxel

Interventions

  • DrugRinzimetostat

    400 mg once daily (QD)

    Also known as: ORIC-944

  • DrugDarolutamide

    600 mg twice daily (BID)

    Also known as: Nubeqa

  • DrugEnzalutamide

    160 mg once daily (QD)

    Also known as: Xtandi

  • DrugDocetaxel

    75 mg/m2 intravenously (IV) every 21 days for up to 10 cycles

    Also known as: Taxotere

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Radiographic Progression Free Survival assessed by blinded independent central review (BICR) per RECIST v1.1 and Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Working Group 3 (PCWG3)

    Radiographic Progression Free Survival is defined as the time from the date of randomization to first evidence of radiographic progression as assessed in soft tissue by RECIST 1.1 or in bone per PCWG3 guideline by BICR, or death, whichever occurs first

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~2 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall Survival (OS)

    OS is defined as time from date of randomization to date of death due to any cause

    Time frame: 5 years

  2. Objective response rate (ORR)

    ORR is defined as proportion of patients with measurable soft tissue disease at baseline who have a confirmed objective response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR)

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~2 years

  3. Duration of Response (DoR)

    DOR is defined as time of first response to first documentation of radiographic progression or death, whichever occurs first

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~2 years

  4. Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) response

    Defined as the proportion of patients with a confirmed ≥50% and ≥90% decline in PSA from baseline as per the PCWG3 criteria, along with the maximum decline in PSA occurring at any point on study

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~2 years

  5. Time to PSA progression

    Measured from the start of treatment until criteria for PSA progression are met as per PCWG3

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~2 years

  6. Time to initiation of antineoplastic therapy

    Time from randomization to first symptomatic skeletal event (symptomatic bone fractures, spinal cord compression, surgery or radiation to the bone whichever is first)

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~4 years

  7. Time to first symptomatic skeletal event

    Time from randomization to first symptomatic skeletal event (symptomatic bone fractures, spinal cord compression, surgery or radiation to the bone whichever is first) Compare patient reported outcomes (PROs) between the investigational treatment and control arms

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~4 years

  8. Change from baseline in patient reported pain symptoms per Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form (BPI-SF)

    Analysis of Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form (BPI-SF) will be based on the pain severity score (mean of individual BPI-SF items 3, 4, 5 and 6), the pain interference score (the mean of items 9A-9G), and the single BPI-SF Item 3 which asks the patient to rate pain at its worst in the last 24 hours

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~4 years

  9. Change from baseline in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) per Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Prostate (FACT-P)

    Change from baseline in HRQoL (FACT-P total score) will be presented. The FACT-P total score will be calculated based on the participant responses to the 39 items in the FACT-P questionnaire. Each item is rated on a 0 to 4 Likert-type scale and then combined to produce the FACT-P total score (0-156), with higher scores representing better health-related quality of life

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~4 years

  10. Change from baseline in social/family well-being per Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Prostate (FACT-P)

    Change from baseline in social/family well-being score will be presented. The social/family well-being score will be calculated based on 7 items in the FACT-P questionnaire; score range 0-28. Each item is rated on a 0 to 4 Likert-type scale

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~4 years

  11. Change from baseline in functioning well-being per Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Prostate (FACT-P)

    Change from baseline in functioning well-being score will be presented. The functioning well-being score will be calculated based on 7 items in the FACT-P questionnaire; score range 0-28. Each item is rated on a 0 to 4 Likert-type scale

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~4 years

  12. Change from baseline in physical well-being per Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Prostate (FACT-P)

    Change from baseline in physical well-being score will be presented. The physical well-being score will be calculated based on 7 items in the FACT-P questionnaire; score range 0-28. Each item is rated on a 0 to 4 Likert-type scale

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~4 years

  13. Change from baseline in symptoms per Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Prostate (FACT-P)

    Change from baseline prostate cancer symptoms (PCS) score will be presented. The PCS score will be calculated based on 12 items in the FACT-P questionnaire; score range 0-48. Each item is rated on a 0 to 4 Likert-type scale

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~4 years

  14. Change from baseline in patient reported health status per European Quality of Life 5-Dimension 5 Level (EQ-5D-5L)

    Participants will self-rate their current state of mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression by choosing 1 of 5 possible responses that record the level of severity (no problems, slight problems, moderate problems, severe problems, or extreme problems) within each dimension. The questionnaire also includes a visual analog scale to self-rate general health state on a scale from "the worst health you can imagine" to "the best health you can imagine."

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~4 years

  15. Symptomatic toxicity as measured by items from the Patient-Reported Outcome CTCAE (PRO-CTCAE)

    Each selected PRO-CTCAE items will be assessed related to one or more attributes that include counts for the frequency, severity, and/or interference with usual or daily activities

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~2 years

  16. Overall side effect burden as measured by the FACT- GP5

    The FACT-GP5 question assesses overall side effect burden with the following response options "I am bothered by side effects of treatment," is rated on a 5-point scale ranging from "not at all" (0) to "very much" (4) and counts will be presented

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~2 years

  17. Time to confirmatory deterioration in patient-reported pain symptoms per BPI-SF Item 3 "worst pain in 24 hours"

    Defined as the time from randomization to onset of pain progression, which is defined as \> 2-point increase from baseline in the score from the BPI-SF Question 3 that is confirmed at the next consecutive assessment \> 4 weeks apart or an initial deterioration followed by death before the next assessment

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~4 years

  18. Time to definitive deterioration in patient-reported health related quality of life (HRQoL) per FACT-P

    Defined as the time from randomization to onset of definitive deterioration in FACT-P total score, which is defined as \>10 point decrease from baseline and no subsequent observations with a \<10 point decrease from baseline FACT-P total score

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~4 years

  19. Time to definitive deterioration in patient-reported physical well-being per FACT-P

    Time to definitive deterioration in physical well-being (PWB) per FACT-P is defined as the time from randomization to onset of definitive deterioration in physical well-being, which is defined as ≥3-point

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~4 years

  20. Incidence of Adverse Events (AEs)

    Type, incidence, relationship to study treatments, severity, and seriousness of AEs \[as graded by National Cancer Institute (NCI) common terminology criteria for adverse events (CTCAE) v6.0\] and other clinical assessments

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~2 years

  21. Evaluate the pharmacokinetics (PK) of rinzimetostat in combination with darolutamide

    Rinzimetostat characterized by predose and postdose plasma concentrations at selected time points

    Time frame: Randomization up to ~1 year

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Study locations

7 of 7 sites recruiting
  • First Urology PSC
    Jeffersonville, Indiana 40207, United States
    Recruiting
  • Urology Specialists of the Carolinas - University Place
    Charlotte, North Carolina 29464, United States
    Recruiting
  • Gabrail Cancer Center Research
    Canton, Ohio 44718, United States
    Recruiting
  • Urology Clinics Of North Texas
    Dallas, Texas 75231, United States
    Recruiting
  • Urology Partners of North Texas (UPNT)
    Fort Worth, Texas 76132, United States
    Recruiting
  • Houston Metro Urology (HMU)
    Houston, Texas 77027, United States
    Recruiting
  • Summit Urology
    Murray, Utah 84107, United States
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07723248
Lead sponsor
ORIC Pharmaceuticals
Collaborators
Bayer
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jul 23, 2026
Start date
Aug 3, 2026
Primary completion
Mar 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 3, 2026

Study contacts

ORIC Clinical Call Center
Contact
clinical@oricpharma.com

Oversight

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