Supercharged immune cells take on tough blood cancers

NCT ID NCT05092451

First seen Jan 23, 2026 · Last updated Jun 23, 2026 · Updated 23 times

Summary

This study tests a new treatment for people with blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma that have returned or not responded to treatment. Participants receive chemotherapy followed by specially engineered natural killer (NK) cells from donated cord blood. The goal is to see if this combination is safe and can help control the cancer.

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Contacts and locations

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Locations

  • M D Anderson Cancer Center

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    Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

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What this could mean

Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only — not medical advice or a prediction.

Active substance

engineered natural killer (NK) cells from cord blood, plus chemotherapy drugs cyclophosphamide and fludarabine

What this could lead to

If it works, this could offer a new treatment option for people with blood cancers that have come back or not responded to standard therapy.

What could go wrong

This is an early-phase trial with only 80 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. Side effects from the chemotherapy and the NK cells could be serious.

Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

acute myeloid leukemia B-cell neoplasm blast phase chronic myelogenous leukemia, BCR-ABL1 positive chronic myelomonocytic leukemia germ cell tumor Hodgkins lymphoma myelodysplastic syndrome Myelodysplastic Syndromes Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal plasma cell leukemia plasma cell myeloma T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma

As listed by the trial registrant

The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.