Azelaic Acid as a Novel Treatment for Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia (CCCA)

The registered record

Accession number

NCT05416333

Lead sponsor

Wake Forest University Health Sciences (other)

Registered condition naming hair loss

Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia

Official title

A Pilot Study of Azelaic Acid as a Novel Treatment for Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia

Interventions

• Drugazelaic acid
• Otherusual medication for CCCA

Names and types as registered. The sponsors' free-text descriptions of these interventions are not reproduced: they are written by the party with an interest in the result, and reprinting them inside this site's layout would lend them this site's voice.

Design

Study type

interventional

Phase

Early Phase 1

Allocation

randomized

Masking

none

Primary purpose

treatment

Enrolment

18 participants (actual)

Sites

1 location in United States

What it measures

1. Amount of hair loss regression

   Time frame: Baseline

2. Amount of hair loss regression

   Time frame: Month 2

3. Amount of hair loss regression

   Time frame: Month 4

4. Amount of hair loss regression

   Time frame: Month 6

Primary outcome measures only, as registered. What a trial chose to measure, and when, is the most informative thing about it that is knowable before it reports — a hair-count endpoint at 24 weeks and a patient-satisfaction endpoint at 12 weeks are not the same study.

Who can take part

Sex

female

Age

18 Years

Healthy volunteers

not accepted

A summary of three registered fields, not the eligibility criteria. The full inclusion and exclusion criteria, the recruiting sites and the study contacts are on the registry record, which is the only place they are maintained. This site has no relationship with this trial and cannot refer anyone to it.

Registered dates

Study start

12 August 2024 (actual)

Primary completion

November 2026 (estimated)

Study completion

December 2026 (estimated)

First posted

13 June 2022 (actual)

Last update posted

1 July 2026 (actual)

"Estimated" and "actual" are the registry's own labels: an estimated date is a plan, and plans move. A date is printed at the precision it was registered at: a primary completion registered as 2026-11 is a month, and rendering it as 1 November 2026 would invent a day the sponsor did not register.

Results

This trial has not reported results. ClinicalTrials.gov holds no results record for it. That is the ordinary state of a trial that is running or about to run, and it means there is nothing here to tell you about whether the intervention works — including nothing negative. If this page implied otherwise it would be wrong.

On this site

Guides covering the condition this trial is registered for. They are about published evidence; this page is about a registration, and the two do not overlap.

Scarring Alopecia Types and Management: Complete GuideFrontal Fibrosing Alopecia: Complete Guide to Symptoms, Causes & Treatment (2026)

Where this came from

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