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Elacestrant and Abemaciclib for ER+ Endometrial Cancer

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What is being tested

Abemaciclib

+ Elacestrant
Drug
Who is being recruted

Urogenital Diseases
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+ Genital Diseases
+ Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications
Over 18 Years
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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Phase 2
Interventional
Study Start: October 2025
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Summary

Principal SponsorMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Study ContactAngela Green, MDMore contacts
Last updated: December 11, 2025
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Study start date: October 1, 2025Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

This study explores the effectiveness and safety of a drug called elacestrant, either on its own or combined with another drug called abemaciclib, for people diagnosed with advanced or recurring estrogen receptor-positive endometrial cancer. This type of cancer relies on estrogen to grow, and the study focuses on patients whose tumors have a normal p53 gene, which is often associated with better outcomes. By finding better treatment options for this specific group of patients, the study aims to improve care for those who have few effective treatment choices currently. Participants in the study will receive either elacestrant alone or a combination of elacestrant and abemaciclib. The medications may be administered orally, and researchers will monitor the participants to evaluate the drugs' effectiveness in controlling the cancer and any side effects they may experience. The study does not specify primary outcomes, but it will likely look at factors such as tumor response to treatment and the overall safety of the drugs.

Official TitlePhase II Study of ELacestrant in Combination With Abemaciclib or Elacestrant Alone In p53 Wild Type, Estrogen Receptor-positive Advanced or recurrenT Endometrial Cancer (ELITE) 
Principal SponsorMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Study ContactAngela Green, MDMore contacts
Last updated: December 11, 2025
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Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
Design Details
75 patients to be enrolledTotal number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.
Treatment Study
These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.

How participants are assigned to different groups/arms
In this clinical study, participants are placed into groups randomly, like flipping a coin. This ensures that the study is fair and unbiased, making the results more reliable. By assigning participants by chance, researchers can better compare treatments without external influences.

Other Ways to Assign Participants
Non-randomized allocation
: Participants are assigned based on specific factors, such as their medical condition or a doctor's decision.

None (Single-arm trial)
: If the study has only one group, all participants receive the same treatment, and no allocation is needed.

How treatments are given to participants
Participants are divided into different groups, each receiving a specific treatment at the same time. This helps researchers compare how well different treatments work against each other.

Other Ways to Assign Treatments
Single-group assignment
: Everyone gets the same treatment.

Cross-over assignment
: Participants switch between treatments during the study.

Factorial assignment
: Participants receive different combinations of treatments.

Sequential assignment
: Participants receive treatments one after another in a specific order, possibly based on individual responses.

Other assignment
: Treatment assignment does not follow a standard or predefined design.

How the effectiveness of the treatment is controlled
In a non placebo-controlled study, no participants receive an inert substance (placebo) to compare outcomes. Instead, all participants receive either the experimental treatment or an alternative treatment (often the Standard of Care). This method allows researchers to compare the effects of the experimental treatment with those of a different active intervention, rather than a placebo.

Other Options
Placebo-Controlled
: A placebo is used to compare the effects of the experimental treatment with those of an inert substance, isolating the true treatment effect.

How the interventions assigned to participants is kept confidential
Everyone involved in the study knows which treatment is being given. This is typically used when it's not possible or necessary to hide the treatment details from participants or researchers.

Other Ways to Mask Information
Single-blind
: Participants do not know which treatment they are receiving, but researchers do.

Double-blind
: Neither participants nor researchers know which treatment is given.

Triple-blind
: Participants, researchers, and outcome assessors do not know which treatment is given.

Quadruple-blind
: Participants, researchers, outcome assessors, and care providers all do not know which treatment is given.

Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria
FemaleBiological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.
Over 18 YearsRange of ages for which participants are eligible to join.
Healthy volunteers not allowedIf individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.
Conditions
Pathology
Urogenital Diseases
Genital Diseases
Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications
Genital Diseases, Female
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Pathologic Processes
Recurrence
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
Urogenital Neoplasms
Uterine Diseases
Uterine Neoplasms
Endometrial Neoplasms
Disease Attributes
Female Urogenital Diseases
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥18 years at the time of informed consent. * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 * Patients must have received previous platinum-based chemotherapy and treatment with a PD-1 inhibitor, together or separately, prior to enrolling on this trial. * Patients may have received no more than 1 prior line of chemotherapy for management of endometrial carcinoma. This includes platinum-based chemotherapy alone or combined with a PD-1 inhibitor, small molecule agents, and chemotherapy in combination with radiation therapy. A washout period of 14 days is required for chemotherapy °Adjuvant chemotherapy completed ≥ 12 months prior will not be counted toward prior therapy * Patients may have received ≤ one prior line of endocrine therapy for management of endometrial carcinoma. * No prior treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor * Measurable disease per RECIST v 1.1 criteria °Tumors within a previously irradiated field will be designated as "non-target" lesions unless progression is documented, or a biopsy is obtained to confirm persistence of tumor ≥ 90 days following completion of radiation therapy. * Advanced or recurrent endometrial carcinoma that is refractory to curative therapy. * Patients with the following histologic epithelial cell types are eligible: endometrioid adenocarcinoma, serous adenocarcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma, de-differentiated, clear cell adenocarcinoma, mixed epithelial carcinoma, adenocarcinoma not otherwise specified (N.O.S.), mucinous adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and transitional cell carcinoma. * Patient must have ER-positive tumor status either from the most recent sample of advanced/recurrent disease or from an archival tissue. °Documentation of ER-positive tumor with ≥ 1% staining by IHC as defined in the 2010 or 2020 American Society for Clinical Oncology recommendations for ER testing (Hammond 2010, Allison 2020) * p53 wt by IHC or TP53 wt by next generation sequencing platform either from the most recent sample of advanced/recurrent disease or from an archival tissue. * No known dMMR or POLE mutation * If MSK IMPACT mutational profiling or mutational profiling performed in a CLIA laboratory is not already performed, must have tissue available for MSK IMPACT molecular profiling to be performed clinically * Female patients may be either postmenopausal or premenopausal or perimenopausal. Postmenopausal status is defined by: * Age ≥ 60 years * Age \< 60 years and amenorrhea for ≥12 months (in the absence of chemotherapy, tamoxifen, toremifene, or ovarian suppression) or a follicle-stimulating hormone value \>40 mIU/mL and an estradiol value \<40 pg/mL or in postmenopausal ranges per local reference ranges * Documentation of prior bilateral oophorectomy, at least 1 month before first dose of trial therapy. * Premenopausal or perimenopausal patients must be concurrently given a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist for ovarian suppression starting at least 4 weeks before the start of trial therapy and continue LHRH agonist during the study. * The effects of elacestrant and abemaciclib on the developing human fetus are unknown. For this reason and because SERDs and CDK4/6 inhibitors as well as other therapeutic agents used in this trial are known to be teratogenic, participants of child-bearing potential must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) within 28 days of the first dose of study therapy, during study therapy, and for 120 days following the completion of study therapy. Should a participant become pregnant or suspect pregnancy while participating in this study, they should inform their treating physician immediately °Highly effective and low user dependency, non-hormonal contraception methods include: i. Intrauterine device (non-hormonal). ii. Total abstinence iii. Bilateral tubal occlusion/ligation. iv. Have a vasectomized partner (sole sexual partner) with confirmed azoospermia * Any prior radiotherapy directed at the malignant tumor must be discontinued prior to first study treatment. Patients who received radiotherapy must have completed and fully recovered from the acute effects of radiotherapy. A washout period of at least 14 days is required between the end of radiotherapy and randomization. * Have adequate laboratory values as defined below: °Hematologic * Absolute neutrophil count ≥1500/mm3 (≥1.5 × 10\^3/μL) * Platelets ≥100,000/μL * Hemoglobin ≥9.0 g/dL °Renal * Creatinine clearance (CrCL) Creatinine clearance (CrCl) ≥ 50 mL/min using the Cockcroft-Gault formula °Hepatic * Total bilirubin ≤1.5 ×ULN (patients with known Gilbert's disease who have bilirubin level ≤ 3 x ULN may be enrolled) * AST and ALT ≤2.5 × ULN (≤5 × ULN for participants with liver metastases) * Coagulation Prothrombin time (PT) or international normalized ratio (INR) ≤ 1.5 x ULN, and partial prothrombin time (PTT) or activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) ≤ 1.5 × ULN (unless abnormalities are unrelated to coagulopathy or due to prophylactic coagulation) * Serum Albumin Serum albumin ≥3.0 g/dL (≥30 g/L) Exclusion Criteria: * Patient has received an experimental treatment in a clinical trial within the last 30 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer, prior to randomization, or is currently enrolled in any other type of medical research not scientifically or medically compatible with this study. * Patient who is experiencing a visceral crisis, lymphangitic disease spread, leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. Visceral crisis is not the mere presence of visceral metastases but implies severe organ dysfunction as assessed by symptoms and signs, laboratory studies, and rapid progression of disease. * Patients who have received prior treatment with elacestrant or other investigational oral SERD, everolimus, temsirolimus, ridaforolimus or another mTOR inhibitor, or any CDK4 and CDK6 inhibitor * Patients with hyperlipidemia that is not adequately controlled. * Patients with history of interstitial lung disease (ILD)/pneumonitis or evidence of ILD/pneumonitis on baseline imaging. * Uncontrolled significant active infections. °HIV-infected patients on effective anti-retroviral therapy with undetectable viral load within 6 months are eligible for this trial. control). Patients with a history of treated CNS metastases are eligible, provided that they meet all of the following criteriaFor patients with evidence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, the HBV viral load must be undetectable on suppressive therapy, if indicated. * Patients with a history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection must have been treated and cured. For patients with HCV infection who are currently on treatment, they are eligible if they have an undetectable HCV viral load. * Females who are pregnant or nursing. If with childbearing potential, should have a negative urine pregnancy test at the time of screening. * Patients with a prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment has the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen. * Major surgery within 4 weeks of randomization * Inability to take oral medication, or history of malabsorption syndrome or any other uncontrolled gastrointestinal condition. * Known intolerance to either study drug or any of the excipients. * Any severe medical or psychiatric condition that in the opinion of the investigator(s) would preclude the patient's participation in a clinical study. * Uncontrolled hypomagnesemia or hypokalemia, defined as values below the lower limit of normal despite optimal electrolyte supplementation or management * Known untreated or active central nervous system (CNS) metastases (progression or requiring anticonvulsants or corticosteroids for symptomatic control). Patients with a history of treated CNS metastases are eligible, provided that they meet all of the following criteria: * Presence of measurable disease outside the CNS * No radiographic evidence of worsening upon the completion of CNS-directed therapy and no evidence of interim progression between the completion of CNS-directed therapy and the screening radiographic study * No history of intracranial hemorrhage or spinal cord hemorrhage * No ongoing requirement for dexamethasone as therapy for CNS disease (anticonvulsants at a stable dose are allowed) * Screening CNS radiographic study is within 6 months after most recent intervention for CNS metastases and greater than 4 months after discontinuation of corticosteroids * Inability to comply with study and follow-up procedures * Patient is currently receiving or received any of the following medications prior to first dose of trial therapy: * Known strong or moderate inducers or inhibitors of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 (including foods and herbal preparations) within 14 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter, prior to initiating study therapy. * Herbal preparations/medications. These include, but are not limited to, St.John's wort, kava, ephedra (ma huang), ginkgo biloba, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), yohimbe, saw palmetto, and ginseng within 21 days prior to initiating trial therapy * Any other disease, metabolic dysfunction, physical examination finding, or clinical laboratory finding that, in the investigator's opinion, gives reasonable suspicion of a disease or condition that contraindicates the use of an investigational drug or that may affect the interpretation of the results or render the patient at high risk from treatment complications.


Study Plan

Find out more about all the medication administered in this study, their detailed description and what they involve.
Treatment Groups
Study Objectives
2 intervention groups 

are designated in this study

This study does not include a placebo group 

Treatment Groups
Group I
Experimental
Patients receiving both drugs should take elacestrant orally once daily with abemaciclib orally in the morning and abemaciclib orally only in the evening at the same time every day.

orally only in the evening

orally once daily in the morning
Group II
Experimental
Patients receiving elacestrant only should take orally once daily in the morning.

orally once daily in the morning
Study Objectives
Primary Objectives

according to RECIST 1.1 criteria. Defined as the percentage of patients with complete response (CR) + partial response (PR)\] after initiating therapy.

Study Centers

These are the hospitals, clinics, or research facilities where the trial is being conducted. You can find the location closest to you and its status.
This study has 7 locations
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking RidgeBasking Ridge, United StatesSee the location
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Memorial Sloan Kettering MonmouthMiddletown, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering BergenMontvale, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering CommackCommack, United States

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