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Enzalutamide, Enzalutamide with Mifepristone, and Treatment of Physician's Choice for the Treatment of Patients with AR-Positive Metastatic Triple-Negative or ER-Low Breast Cancer

Trial Status: active

This phase II trial tests how well enzalutamide given alone or in combination with mifepristone works compared to treatment of physician's choice (TPC) in treating patients with breast cancer that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the body (metastatic) and is androgen receptor positive (AR+), triple-negative or estrogen receptor (ER)-low. Androgen is a hormone that may cause the growth of tumor cells. Enzalutamide is a drug that works by blocking the androgen receptor to slow the growth of tumor cells. Mifepristone is a drug that blocks the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) protein. Studies have shown that GR may work with AR to promote the survival and growth of tumor cells, so blocking the GR protein may help to stabilize or shrink the cancer. Chemotherapy drugs, such as carboplatin, paclitaxel, capecitabine, and eribulin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Enzalutamide, on its own or in combination with mifepristone, may be an effective treatment for patients with AR+ triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) or ER-low breast cancer because it targets cells with the AR protein.