New hope for kids with Tough-to-Treat leukemia: experimental immune therapy trial

NCT ID NCT03876769

Summary

This study is testing an experimental immune therapy called tisagenlecleucel (a type of CAR-T cell therapy) in children and young adults (ages 1-25) with high-risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). The treatment is for patients who still show small amounts of cancer cells after completing their initial chemotherapy. Researchers want to see if this one-time infusion of genetically modified immune cells can help keep the cancer from coming back and improve survival without needing a stem cell transplant.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Children s Hospital of Alabama

    Birmingham, Alabama, 35233, United States

  • Children s Mercy Hospital

    Kansas City, Missouri, 64108, United States

  • Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30342, United States

  • Childrens Hospital Colorado

    Aurora, Colorado, 80045, United States

  • Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, California, 90027, United States

  • Childrens Hospital of Orange County

    Orange, California, 92868-3874, United States

  • Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin

    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53226, United States

  • Childrens National Hospital

    Washington D.C., District of Columbia, 20010, United States

  • Cinn Children Hosp Medical Center

    Cincinnati, Ohio, 45229-3039, United States

  • City of Hope National Medical

    Duarte, California, 91010, United States

  • Columbia University Medical Center

    New York, New York, 110032, United States

  • Dana Farber Cancer Institute

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States

  • Duke University Medical Center

    Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States

  • Hackensack Uni Medical Center

    Hackensack, New Jersey, 07601, United States

  • James Whitcomb Riley Hospital For Children

    Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202, United States

  • Johns Hopkins All Childrens

    St. Petersburg, Florida, 33701, United States

  • Johns Hopkins Oncology Center

    Baltimore, Maryland, 21231, United States

  • Mattel Childrens Hospital UCLA

    Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr

    New York, New York, 10065, United States

  • Methodist Childrens Hospital

    San Antonio, Texas, 78229, United States

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Ghent, 9000, Belgium

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Calgary, Alberta, T3B6A8, Canada

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1C5, Canada

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Paris, 75019, France

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Roma, RM, 00165, Italy

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Utrecht, 3584 CS, Netherlands

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Oslo, 0424, Norway

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Esplugues, Barcelona, 08950, Spain

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Gothenburg, SE 416 85, Sweden

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    London, NW1 2BU, United Kingdom

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    London, WC1N 3JH, United Kingdom

  • Oregon Health and Science University

    Portland, Oregon, 97239-3098, United States

  • Phoenix Childrens Hospital

    Phoenix, Arizona, 85016, United States

  • Prinses Maxima Centrum voor Kinderoncologie

    Utrecht, CS, 3584, Netherlands

  • Rady Children s Hospital

    San Diego, California, 92123, United States

  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute

    Buffalo, New York, 14263, United States

  • Stanford University Medical Center

    Stanford, California, 94304, United States

  • Texas Childrens Cancer and Hematology Center

    Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

  • The Childrens Hosp of Philadelphia

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

  • UCSF Medical Center

    San Francisco, California, 94143, United States

  • Univ of Texas Southwest Med Center

    Dallas, Texas, 75390-9034, United States

  • University of Utah Clinical Trials Office

    Salt Lake City, Utah, 84108, United States

  • University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Pharmacy/Drug Shipping Address

    Madison, Wisconsin, 53792, United States

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