A Phase 3 interventional study of Fezolinetant in Hot Flashes, sponsored by Astellas Pharma Inc. Recruiting at 1 site in India. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-02.
Sponsored by Astellas Pharma Inc · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment
This study is for women in India who are going through menopause. They have symptoms including hot flashes and night sweats (also known as vasomotor symptoms or VMS). Fezolinetant is a medicine to treat hot flashes in women going through menopause. It is currently approved in more than 40 countries, including the US and countries in Europe. Further studies are needed before it is approved for use in India. The aim of this study is to confirm if fezolinetant can help reduce hot flashes in Indian women. Women who want to take part in the study will be given an electronic device or use the app on their own smartphone to track their hot flashes and night sweats. The women will record this information before, during and after taking the study treatment. All the women in the study will take 1 tablet of fezolinetant once a day for up to 12 weeks. During the study, the women will visit the study clinic several times. The researchers will collect information about the women's health and ask about their hot flashes and night sweats. At each visit, they will also be asked if they have any medical problems. The women will have a follow up visit 3 weeks after taking their last tablet of study treatment, to collect information about their health and symptoms. Each woman will be in this study for about 5 months.
339 studies on the registry are indexed under Hot Flashes; 56 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 100 is above the median of 90 across 306 interventional studies indexed under Hot Flashes.
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Participant must be seeking treatment or relief for VMS associated with menopause and confirmed as menopausal, defined as meeting 1 of the following criteria for natural or surgical menopause at the screening visit:
Exclusion Criteria:
Participant has uncontrolled hypertension defined as systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure as ≥ 90 mmHg based on an average of 2 to 3 readings within the screening period.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.
Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.
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.
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 (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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)
Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.
Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Participants will receive fezolinetant once daily for 12 weeks.
Drug: Fezolinetant
Oral
Also known as: ESN364, VEOZAH™
Mean change from baseline in the frequency of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms (VMS)
Frequency of moderate and severe VMS events will be calculated as sum of moderate and severe VMS events per day.
Time frame: Baseline and week 12
Mean change from baseline in the frequency of moderate to severe VMS
Frequency of moderate and severe VMS events will be calculated as sum of moderate and severe VMS events per day.
Time frame: Baseline and up to week 12
Mean change from baseline in the severity of moderate to severe VMS
The severity of VMS will be calculated using a weighted average of VMS events.
Time frame: Baseline and up to week 12
Mean percent reduction in the frequency of moderate to severe VMS
Frequency of moderate or severe VMS events will be calculated as the sum of moderate or severe VMS events per day. Mean percent reduction will be reported.
Time frame: Baseline and up to week 12
Percent reduction ≥ 50% in the frequency of moderate to severe VMS
Frequency of moderate and severe VMS events will be calculated as the sum of moderate or severe VMS events per day. Percent reduction of ≥ 50% will be reported.
Time frame: Baseline and up to week 12
Percent reduction of 100% in the frequency of moderate to severe VMS
Frequency of moderate and severe VMS events will be calculated as the sum of moderate or severe VMS events per day. Percent reduction of 100% will be reported.
Time frame: Baseline and up to week 12
Number of participants with adverse events (AEs)
An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical study participant, temporally associated with the use of study intervention, whether or not considered related to the study intervention.
Time frame: Up to week 15
Number of participants with laboratory value abnormalities and/or AEs
Number of participants with potentially clinical significant laboratory values.
Time frame: Up to week 15
Number of participants with vital sign abnormalities and/or AEs
Number of participants with potentially clinical significant vital sign values.
Time frame: Up to week 15
Number of participants with electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities and/or AEs
Number of participants with potentially clinical significant ECG values.
Time frame: Up to week 12
Pharmacokinetics (PK) of fezolinetant in plasma: Concentration
Concentration will be recorded from the PK plasma samples.
Time frame: Up to week 12
PK of metabolite ES259564 in plasma: Concentration
Concentration will be recorded from the PK plasma samples.
Time frame: Up to week 12
Change in serum concentrations of sex hormones: luteinizing hormone (LH)
Concentration will be recorded from pharmacodynamics serum samples.
Time frame: Baseline and up to Week 15
Change in serum concentrations of sex hormone: follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)
Concentration will be recorded from pharmacodynamics serum samples.
Time frame: Baseline and up to Week 15
Change in serum concentrations of sex hormone: estradiol (E2)
Concentration will be recorded from pharmacodynamics serum samples.
Time frame: Baseline and up to Week 15
Change in serum concentrations of sex hormone: testosterone
Concentration will be recorded from pharmacodynamics serum samples.
Time frame: Baseline and up to Week 15
Change in serum concentrations of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG)
Concentration will be recorded from pharmacodynamics serum samples.
Time frame: Baseline and up to Week 15
Plan to share: Yes — Access to anonymized individual participant level data collected during the study, in addition to study-related supporting documentation, is planned for studies conducted with approved product indications and formulations, as well as compounds terminated during development. Studies conducted with product indications or formulations that remain active in development are assessed after study completion to determine if Individual Participant Data can be shared. Further details on Astellas' data sharing policy can be found at https://www.clinicaltrials.astellas.com/transparency/.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan, Clinical study report
Time frame: Access to participant level data is offered to researchers after publication of the primary manuscript (if applicable) and is available as long as Astellas has legal authority to provide the data.
Access criteria: Researchers must submit a proposal to conduct a scientifically relevant analysis of the study data. The research proposal is reviewed by an Independent Research Panel. If the proposal is approved, access to the study data is provided in a secure data sharing environment after receipt of a signed Data Sharing Agreement.
Data sharing details ↗ · www.clinicaltrials.astellas.com
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Started Oct 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2028, 17 months after the start.
Of 23 phase 3 interventional studies under Hot Flashes, half reached primary completion within 22 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 16 and three quarters within 29. This study's planned 17 months is below that.
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
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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