Enfortumab Vedotin as Monotherapy in Patients With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (ENCORE)

A Phase 2 Umbrella Protocol of Enfortumab Vedotin as Monotherapy and Combined With Other Agents in Patients With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

This is an open-label, phase II umbrella trial assessing the anti-tumor activity of enfortumab alone and in combination with other anti-cancer agents in subjects with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. The trial will open to enrollment in Cohort A, enfortumab monotherapy. Additional cohorts may be added as new drug combinations are identified.

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Enfortumab vedotin

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 34
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Utah
    • Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84112
      • Huntsman Cancer Institute

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male subject aged ≥ 18 years.
• Histologically or cytologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate without small cell histology.
• Diagnosis of metastatic or locally advanced, inoperable disease that cannot be treated with definitive intent
• Castrate levels of testosterone as defined as < 50 ng/dL (1.73 nmol/L).
• Prior treatment with at least three or more cycles of taxane therapy (docetaxel or cabazitaxel).

Note: Docetaxel in the newly diagnosed metastatic setting and docetaxel rechallenge allowed.

• Prior treatment with at least one prior Novel Hormone Therapy (NHT), defined as second-generation antiandrogen therapies that include but are not limited to abiraterone acetate, enzalutamide, apalutamide, and darolutamide.
• Subject has received or refused therapies which have shown to improve overall survival and are recommended per National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines prior to enrollment in trial. Such agents include but are not limited to docetaxel, cabazitaxel, sipuleucel-T, olaparib, rucaparib, radium-223 and lutetium (177Lu) vipivotide tetraxetan depending on patient eligibility.
• Had disease progression on or after NHT prior to enrolling in the study.
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status ≤ 2.

• Adequate organ function as defined as:

  • Hematologic:

    • White blood cell count (WBC) ≥ 2000/mm3
    • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1500/mm3
    • Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm3
    • Hemoglobin ≥ 9g/dL

  • Hepatic:

    • Total Bilirubin ≤ 1.5x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) unless there is a known history of Gilbert's syndrome.
    • Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)(SGOT)/Alanine aminotransferase (ALT)(SGPT) ≤ 5 × institutional ULN

  • Renal:

    • Estimated creatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min by Cockcroft-Gault formula:
• Highly effective contraception throughout the study as described in Section 7.4.
• Discontinued all previous treatments for cancer (except androgen-deprivation therapy and bone loss prevention treatment) 28 days prior to starting study therapy.
• Recovery to baseline or ≤ Grade 1 CTCAE v 5.0 from toxicities related to any prior treatments, unless Adverse Event(s) (AE(s)) are clinically non-significant and/or stable on supportive therapy as determined by the treating physician.
• Able to provide informed consent and willing to sign an approved consent form that conforms to federal and institutional guidelines.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior or concurrent malignancy (other than adenocarcinoma of the prostate). Note: Patients with prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment does not have the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen are eligible for this trial as approved by the Principal Investigator.
• The subject has an uncontrolled, significant intercurrent or recent illness that would preclude safe study participation.
• Clinically significant cardiovascular disease: myocardial infarction (<6 months prior to enrollment), unstable angina, congestive heart failure (> New York Heart Association Classification Class IIB) or a serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication.
• Known HIV infection with a detectable viral load at the time of screening. Note: Patients on effective antiretroviral therapy with an undetectable viral load at the time of screening are eligible for this trial.
• Known chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with a detectable viral load.

Note: Patients with an undetectable HBV viral load are eligible. Patients with an undetectable HCV viral load are eligible.

• Live attenuated vaccinations within ≤ 4 weeks of the first study therapy and while on trial is prohibited.
• Known prior severe hypersensitivity to investigational product or any component in its formulations, including known severe hypersensitivity reactions to monoclonal antibodies (NCI CTCAE v5.0 Grade ≥ 3).
• Subjects taking prohibited medications as described in Section 6.3. A washout period of prohibited medications for a period of at least 5 half-lives or as clinically indicated should occur prior to the start of treatment.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Treatment: all patients; Enfortumab will be administered in monotherapy on days 1, 8, and 15 as part of a 28-day cycle at 1.25 mg/kg up to 125 mg.	Drug: Enfortumab vedotin; Cohort A will be treated with enfortumab vedotin on a 28 day cycle for up to 12 months.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Proportion subjects achieving a protocol-defined response (as defined below):	To assess the anti-tumor action of the study therapy in subjects with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer, as represented by the proportion of subjects achieving one of the following outcomes: Objective response by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1; Confirmed conversion of circulating tumor cell count (CTC) to <5/7.5 mL blood; Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) decline ≥ 50% from baseline; or Stable disease ≥ 6 months per Prostate Cancer Working Group 3 (PCWG3)-modified RECIST 1.1	12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Utah
• Collaborators: Astellas Pharma Inc
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Umang Swami, MD, Huntsman Cancer Institute

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 5, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 22, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): January 1, 2027

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 9, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 9, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): February 15, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 12, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 11, 2026
• Last Verified: January 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Urogenital Diseases; Genital Diseases; Genital Neoplasms, Male; Urogenital Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Genital Diseases, Male; Prostatic Diseases; Male Urogenital Diseases; Prostatic Neoplasms; enfortumab vedotin
• Other Study ID Numbers: HCI137651

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No