New hope for Tough-to-Treat leukemia: drug combo aims to extend lives

NCT ID NCT03069352

Summary

This study tested whether adding a new drug called venetoclax to a standard low-dose chemotherapy (LDAC) works better than the low-dose chemo alone. It involved 211 adults with a new diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who were too old or had other health problems that made them unable to tolerate the strongest chemotherapy. The main goal was to see if the combination helped patients live longer.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Akita University Hospital /ID# 160602

    Akita, 100041, Japan

  • Alfred Hospital /ID# 160125

    Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia

  • Almazov North-West Federal Med /ID# 162170

    Saint Petersburg, 197341, Russia

  • Bacs-Kiskun Megyei Korhaz /ID# 160973

    Kecskemét, 6000, Hungary

  • Beaumont Hospital /ID# 162733

    Dublin, D09 XR63, Ireland

  • Blood disease hosp of Chinese Academy of Med Sciences(Institute of Hematology) /ID# 167509

    Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality, 300020, China

  • Box Hill Hospital /ID# 162920

    Melbourne, Victoria, 3128, Australia

  • CHU Bordeaux /ID# 159704

    Pessac, 33600, France

  • CHU De Nancy /ID# 159700

    Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, 54511, France

  • CISSS de la Monteregie /ID# 159782

    Greenfield Park, Quebec, J4V 2H1, Canada

  • Calvary Mater Newcastle /ID# 160123

    Waratah, New South Wales, 2298, Australia

  • Casa de Saúde Santa Marcelina /ID# 163413

    São Paulo, 08270-070, Brazil

  • Cath Univ Seoul St Mary's Hosp /ID# 158724

    Seoul, Seoul Teugbyeolsi, 06591, South Korea

  • Cemic /Id# 159676

    Buenos Aires, 1431, Argentina

  • Centre Hospitalier Le Mans /ID# 159702

    Le Mans, Sarthe, 72037, France

  • Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud /ID# 159705

    Pierre-Bénite, Rhone, 69495, France

  • Centre Hospitalier de la Cote /ID# 159697

    Bayonne, 64100, France

  • Centro de Invest Clin Chapulte /ID# 162625

    Morelia, Michoacán, 58260, Mexico

  • Centro de Pesquisas Oncologicas /ID# 163567

    Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, 88034-000, Brazil

  • Chungnam National University Hospital /ID# 158726

    Junggu, Daejeon Gwang Yeogsi, 35015, South Korea

  • City Clinical Hospital Botkina /ID# 164086

    Moscow, 125284, Russia

  • Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc /ID# 159567

    Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels Capital, 1200, Belgium

  • Debreceni Egyetem Klinikai Koz /ID# 158178

    Debrecen, 4032, Hungary

  • Dokkyo Medical University Hosp /ID# 159650

    Shimotsuga, 321-0293, Japan

  • Dél-pesti Centrumkórház- Országos Hematológiai és Infektológiai Intézet /ID# 159127

    Budapest IX, Budapest, 1097, Hungary

  • Fakult Nem Kralovske Vinohrady /ID# 159248

    Prague, 100 34, Czechia

  • Fakultni Nemocnice Brno /ID# 159247

    Brno, 625 00, Czechia

  • Fujian Medical Univ Union Hosp /ID# 167321

    Fuzhou, Fujian, 350001, China

  • Gen Univ Hosp Alexandroupolis /ID# 157868

    Alexandroupoli, 68100, Greece

  • General Hospital of Athens Evaggelismos and Ophthalmiatrio of Athens Polyclinic /ID# 157869

    Athens, 10676, Greece

  • General Hospital of Athens Laiko /ID# 157870

    Athens, Attica, 115 27, Greece

  • General Hospital of Thessaloniki George Papanikolaou /ID# 157867

    Thessaloniki, 57010, Greece

  • Gundersen Health System /ID# 164272

    La Crosse, Wisconsin, 54601, United States

  • Gunmaken Saiseikai Maebashi Hospital /ID# 160597

    Maebashi, Gunma, 371-0821, Japan

  • H. Lee Moffit Cancer Center /ID# 164273

    Tampa, Florida, 33612, United States

  • Haukeland University Hospital /ID# 165630

    Bergen, Hordaland, 5021, Norway

  • Heartlands Hospital /ID# 163534

    Birmingham, B9 5SS, United Kingdom

  • Henan Cancer Hospital /ID# 167327

    Zhengzhou, Henan, 450008, China

  • Hopital Sacre Coeur Montreal /ID# 160982

    Montreal, Quebec, H4J 1C5, Canada

  • Hosp. Univ. Dr. Jose E. Gonz /ID# 159268

    Monterrey, Nuevo León, 64320, Mexico

  • Hospital Infanta Leonor /ID# 161180

    Madrid, 28031, Spain

  • Hospital Maisonneuve-Rosemont /ID# 159780

    Montreal, Quebec, H1T 2M4, Canada

  • Hospital Universitario y Politecnico La Fe /ID# 161181

    Valencia, Valenciana, 46026, Spain

  • Hospital de Cancer de Barretos /ID# 163568

    Barretos, São Paulo, 14784-400, Brazil

  • Hospital do Cancer Mae de Deus /ID# 163416

    Porto Alegre, 90470-150, Brazil

  • Instituto Nacional de Cancerol /ID# 159269

    Mexico City, Mexico City, 14080, Mexico

  • Jiangsu Province People's Hospital /ID# 167511

    Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China

  • Juntendo University Hospital /ID# 159781

    Tokyo, 113-8431, Japan

  • Kaohsiung Medical University /ID# 161693

    Kaohsiung City, 80708, Taiwan

  • Kaposi Mor Oktato Korhaz /ID# 158175

    Kaposvár, 7400, Hungary

  • Kemerovo Regional Clinical Hospital n.a. S.V. Belyaev /ID# 162991

    Kemerovo, Kemerovo Oblast, 650066, Russia

  • Kinki University -Osakasayama Campus /ID# 160777

    Osakasayama-shi, Osaka, 589-8511, Japan

  • Kyoto Prefect Univ Med /ID# 160101

    Kyoto, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan

  • Kyushu University Hospital /ID# 159688

    Fukuoka, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan

  • Middlemore Clinical Trials /ID# 160131

    Auckland, 2025, New Zealand

  • NHO Nagoya Medical Center /ID# 159768

    Nagoya, 460-0001, Japan

  • NTT Medical Center Tokyo /ID# 160678

    Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-8625, Japan

  • Nagasaki University Hospital /ID# 160233

    Nagasaki, Nagasaki, 852-8501, Japan

  • Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University /ID# 170147

    Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China

  • National Hospital Organization Mito Medical Center /ID# 162988

    Higashi Ibaraki-gun, Ibaraki, 3113193, Japan

  • National Taiwan Univ Hosp /ID# 162781

    Taipei City, Taipei, 10002, Taiwan

  • Netcare Pretoria East Hospital /ID# 157373

    Pretoria, Gauteng, 0001, South Africa

  • Nizhniy Novgorod regional clinical hospital named N. A. Semashko /ID# 163186

    Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, 603126, Russia

  • North Shore Hospital /ID# 160132

    Auckland, 0622, New Zealand

  • Northwick Park Hospital /ID# 162727

    Harrow, HA1 3UJ, United Kingdom

  • Norton Cancer Institute /ID# 158998

    Louisville, Kentucky, 40202-3700, United States

  • Osaka City University Hospital /ID# 159722

    Osaka, Osaka, 545-0051, Japan

  • Pecsi Tudomanyegyetem /ID# 163161

    Pécs, Pecs, 7624, Hungary

  • Petz Aladar Megyei Oktato Korh /ID# 161739

    Győr, 9023, Hungary

  • Pusan National University Hosp /ID# 158725

    Busan, Busan Gwang Yeogsi, 602-739, South Korea

  • Qilu Hospital of Shandong Univ /ID# 167507

    Jinan, 250014, China

  • Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong /ID# 167325

    Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, 200025, China

  • Saint Petersburg State Institu /ID# 162171

    Saint Petersburg, 198205, Russia

  • Saitama Med Univ Int Med Ctr /ID# 161308

    Hidaka, 350-1241, Japan

  • Samara State Medical Universit /ID# 164173

    Samara, 443099, Russia

  • Sanatorio Allende /ID# 159675

    Córdoba, 5000, Argentina

  • Schwarzwald-Baar-Klinikum /ID# 159571

    Villingen-Schwenningen, Baden-Wurttemberg, 78052, Germany

  • Semmelweis Egyetem I. Belklini /ID# 158180

    Budapest, 1083, Hungary

  • Seoul National University Hospital /ID# 162253

    Seoul, 03080, South Korea

  • St. James's Hospital /ID# 162730

    Dublin, Dublin, D08 E9P6, Ireland

  • State Institution of Health of the Ryazan Regional Clinical Hospital /ID# 163126

    Ryazan, Ryazan Oblast, 390039, Russia

  • Swedish Medical Center /ID# 161280

    Seattle, Washington, 98104, United States

  • Sykehuset Ostfold Kalnes /ID# 165632

    Grålum, 1714, Norway

  • The First Affiliated Hospital,College of Medicine, Zhejiang University /ID# 167324

    Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310003, China

  • The First Hosp of Jilin Univ /ID# 167512

    Changchun, Jilin, 130021, China

  • Tohoku University Hospital /ID# 161151

    Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8574, Japan

  • Tokyo Jikei Daisan Hospital /ID# 159769

    Komae-shi, Tokyo, 201-8601, Japan

  • Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital /ID# 160759

    Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8677, Japan

  • Tri-Service General Hospital /ID# 161683

    Taipei City, Taipei, 11490, Taiwan

  • Tshwane District Hospital /ID# 157361

    Pretoria, Gauteng, 0001, South Africa

  • Union Hospital Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technol /ID# 167515

    Wuhan, 430022, China

  • Univ Hosp Ostrava-Poruba /ID# 159246

    Ostrava, 708 52, Czechia

  • Univ TX, MD Anderson /ID# 159678

    Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

  • Univ of Pittsburgh Med Ctr /ID# 158997

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15232, United States

  • Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg /ID# 161760

    Hamburg, 20246, Germany

  • Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen /ID# 159566

    Edegem, Antwerpen, 2650, Belgium

  • University Gen Hosp of Patra /ID# 157871

    Pátrai, 26504, Greece

  • University Hospital Galway /ID# 162734

    Galway, H91 YR71, Ireland

  • University Hospital Limerick /ID# 162735

    Limerick, V94F858, Ireland

  • University Hospital of Wales /ID# 162726

    Cardiff, CF14 4EN, United Kingdom

  • University of Alberta Hospital /ID# 159646

    Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G3, Canada

  • University of Fukui Hospital /ID# 159770

    Yoshida-gun, Fukui, 910-1193, Japan

  • VA Caribbean Healthcare System /ID# 158999

    San Juan, 00921-3201, Puerto Rico

  • Vivantes Klinikum Am Urban /ID# 159569

    Berlin, 10967, Germany

  • West China Hospital /ID# 167514

    Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China

  • Westmead Hospital /ID# 160121

    Westmead, New South Wales, 2145, Australia

  • Yamagata University Hospital /ID# 161223

    Yamagata, Yamagata, 990-9585, Japan

  • Yaroslavl Regional Clinic Hosp /ID# 162172

    Yaroslavl, 150062, Russia

  • saratov state medical /ID# 163130

    Saratov, 41002, Russia

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