RecruitingPhase 1

A Clinical Study of KTX-2001 in Subjects With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (STRIKE-001)

Phase 1, Dose-Escalation Study of KTX2001 (an NSD2 Inhibitor) Alone and in Combination With Darolutamide for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
18 Years and older
Sex
Male only
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.

Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

In plain language

This study tests KTX-2001 in people for the first time, alone and with darolutamide. It is for men with prostate cancer that has spread and keeps growing despite treatment to lower testosterone. Researchers will check safety at increasing doses, whether treatment works, and how the drugs act in the body.

Study K36-MCRPC-001 is the first in human clinical trial testing KTX-2001 alone and with darolutamide in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. The study aims to assess whether the drug is safe, increasing doses alone and in combination with darolutamide, whether it is effective in treating metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, and measuring how the drug(s) behaves in the body.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • Be a man age 18 or older.
  • Be fully active or able to do light work despite some limits on hard physical activity.
  • Have prostate cancer that has spread and keeps growing despite treatment to lower testosterone.
  • Have cancer spread confirmed by a bone scan, CT scan, or MRI. A PSMA PET scan alone is not enough.
  • Be willing to have small tissue samples taken from cancer that has spread, before and during treatment, if safe and possible. A sample from the past 6 months may replace the first sample.
  • Have cancer that worsened during or after a hormone-blocking drug, such as abiraterone, enzalutamide, darolutamide, or apalutamide.
  • Have kidney and liver blood test results within the study's required limits.
  • Have blood cell counts within the study's required limits and no blood transfusion in the past 2 weeks.

Who can't join

  • Have brain cancer spread that causes symptoms or is not controlled, unless treated, stable for 28 days, and not needing steroids. Cancer in the lining around the brain or spinal cord is always excluded.
  • Have pressure on the spinal cord that causes symptoms or may happen soon and has not been treated or stabilized.
  • Have a serious illness or health problem that could make the study unsafe or affect its results. This includes certain heart rhythm problems, severe heart failure, a heart attack within 3 months, or blood pressure that stays above 150/90 despite treatment.
  • Have side effects from earlier cancer treatment that are more than mild, except hair loss or moderate nerve damage.
  • Have an active, uncontrolled infection, including hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or HIV-related illness. Some people with treated infections or HIV may qualify after review.
  • Use foods, drugs, herbs, or supplements that may interfere with study treatment or affect prostate cancer. Certain hormone drugs cannot be started during the study. Extra drug limits apply to the darolutamide group.
  • Had certain cancer treatments within 2 weeks, or chemotherapy, radioactive drug treatment, other whole-body cancer treatments, or an experimental drug within 4 weeks before the first study dose.
  • Had major surgery within 28 days before the first study dose or have not recovered from it. Minor procedures may not require a waiting period.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age ≥18 years. 2. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) score of 0 or 1. 3. Male participants with mCRPC as defined by PCWG3 criteria. 4. Metastatic disease documented using bone scan for bone metastases (PCWG3 criteria) or by computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for soft-tissue metastases. Evidence of metastasis on prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography alone will not be sufficient for confirmation of metastatic disease. 5. Willingness to undergo a baseline and on-treatment biopsy of a metastatic site if safe and feasible. If tissue from a biopsy of a metastatic site (including bone) obtained within the previous 6 months (prior to treatment start) is available, this tissue may be used, and the baseline biopsy may be omitted. 6. Participants should have progressed on or after receiving an ARPI (eg, abiraterone, enzalutamide, darolutamide, or apalutamide). 7. Adequate renal function (creatinine clearance \>50 mL/min by serum creatinine). 8. Adequate hepatic function (total bilirubin ≤1.5× ULN, total bilirubin \<3× ULN for participants with documented Gilbert's syndrome, AST and ALT ≤2.5× ULN). In case of liver metastases, AST and ALT \<5× ULN is allowed. 9. Adequate hematological function (neutrophils \>1 × 109/L, platelet count \>100 × 109/L, hemoglobin \>9 g/dL) with no prior transfusions within 2 weeks. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Presence of symptomatic or uncontrolled brain metastases unless adequately treated, not requiring steroids and stable for the last 28 calendar days before signing the ICF. Participants with leptomeningeal disease are excluded without exception. 2. Symptomatic or impending cord compression that has not been treated or stabilized. 3. Life-threatening illness, medical condition, active uncontrolled infection, or organ system dysfunction (such as coagulopathy or encephalopathy), or other reasons which, in the investigator's opinion, could compromise the participant's safety or interfere with or compromise the integrity of the study outcomes. 4. Presence of a drug-related toxicity from prior cancer therapy that has not resolved to Grade ≤1 (with the exception of alopecia and Grade 2 neuropathy) according to NCI-CTCAE Version 5.0. 5. Active, uncontrolled, bacterial, fungal, or viral infection, including hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related illness. In equivocal cases, participants with a negative viral load may be eligible. Eligibility criteria for HIV-positive participants currently on highly active antiretroviral therapy should be evaluated and discussed with the medical monitor and will be based on current and past CD4 and T cell counts, history (if any) of AIDS-defining conditions (eg, opportunistic infections), and status of HIV treatment. Participants with previously treated HBV and HCV with negative viral load are eligible. 6. A significant history of renal, neurologic, psychiatric, pulmonary, endocrinologic, metabolic, immunologic, cardiovascular, or hepatic disease that, in the opinion of the investigator, would adversely affect participation in this study. 1. QT interval corrected by Fridericia's formula \>470 msec at screening. 2. Unstable cardiovascular function defined as: 3. Symptomatic ischemia, or 4. Uncontrolled clinically significant conduction abnormalities (ie, ventricular tachycardia on antiarrhythmic agents are excluded; first-degree atrioventricular block or asymptomatic left anterior fascicular block/right bundle branch block are not excluded), or 5. Congestive heart failure New York Heart Association Class ≥3, or 6. Myocardial infarction within 3 months of the screening visit. 7. Hypertension that cannot be controlled (persistent \>150/90 mmHg despite optimal medical therapy). 7. Current use or anticipated need for food or drugs that are known strong CYP3A inducers or inhibitors, including their administration within 10 days or 5 half-lives of the CYP3A inhibitor, whichever is longer prior to first dose of study drug. 8. Treatment with anticancer therapies including radiotherapy or AR-targeted therapy/androgen biosynthesis inhibitor) within 2 weeks prior to initial study drug dose or within 4 weeks for systemic chemotherapy, radioligand therapy, or other systemic anticancer therapies. 9. Treatment with another investigational agent in the 4 weeks prior to the initial dose of study drug. 10. Major surgical procedures ≤28 days prior to the initial dose of study drug. Participants must have recovered from any of the effects of any major surgery. No waiting period is required following central venous access placement, biopsy collection, or minor surgeries as long as the investigator assesses the impact on study participation. 11. Initiation of hormonal agents with antitumor activity against prostate cancer including 5alpha reductase inhibitors, androgens (eg, testosterone), cytoproterone acetate, etc during study participation (from the time of consent to off-study); however, stable use of 5-alpha reductase inhibitors is permitted, if continuous use for ≥6 months. 12. Use of herbal products or alternative therapies that may decrease PSA levels or that may have hormonal anti-prostate cancer activity (eg, saw palmetto, PC-SPES, PC-HOPE, St. John's wort, selenium supplements, grape seed extract, etc) within 4 weeks of study drug initiation or plans to initiate treatment with these products/alternative therapies at any point during the study. For Part B only (KTX-2001 + darolutamide): Current use or anticipated need for drugs that are known as combined P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and strong or moderate CYP3A4 inducers including their administration within 10 days or 5 half-lives of the combined Pgp/CYP3A4 inducer, whichever is longer prior to first dose of darolutamide.

Study sites (13)

CA

FL

MN

NC

NY

OH

  • The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center · Columbus, OH 43210Fuat Bicer, MD, PhD · Principal investigatorMore trials in Columbus

SC

TX

WI