Can an antibody drug outsmart resistant Ewing's sarcoma?
NCT ID NCT05968768
First seen Aug 21, 2026 · Last updated Aug 21, 2026
Summary
This phase 2 trial is testing whether adding the antibody drug naxitamab to standard chemotherapy can help children and young adults with Ewing's sarcoma that has not responded to prior treatment. Participants must have a tumor that shows a specific marker called GD2. The study will measure safety, how long people live without the disease getting worse, and whether tumors shrink.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- naxitamab (also known as danyelza), an antibody drug given alongside standard chemotherapy
- What this could lead to
- If it works, adding naxitamab to standard chemotherapy could offer a new treatment option for people with Ewing's sarcoma that has not responded to other treatments.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-phase trial, so the benefits are uncertain. Naxitamab can cause serious allergic reactions and other side effects, and it may not improve outcomes for everyone.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 24 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2023
- Expected to finish
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Jul 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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2 to 21 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Histologically proven Ewing sarcoma of the bone or soft tissues. 2. Subject's archival tumour sample (formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded; FFPE) available for evaluation of GD2 expression. 3. Documented disease progression (during or after completion of at least one line treatment) or any subsequent recurrence. 4. GD2 positive tumor assessed by IHC. 5. Age ≥ 2 years and ≤ 21 years. 6. Life expectancy of at least 12 weeks from the time informed consent was signed. 7. Previous systemic anticancer treatment completed ≥ 3 weeks, major surgery ≥ 2 weeks, and radiation therapy ≥ 4 weeks prior to study enrollment. 8. Recovered from adverse effects of prior surgery, radiotherapy, or Clinical trial protocol BUTTERFLY version 1.0 of 30.09.2022 r.anti-neoplastic therapy at the discretion of the investigator. 9. Signing of informed consent for trial participation (including for naxitamab treatment) according with current legal regulations. 10. Consent to the use of effective contraception throughout the period of the study and a minimum of 1 year after discontinuation of study treatment in patients at puberty and sexual maturity Exclusion Criteria: 1. Failure to meet any of the inclusion criteria. 2. Not eligible to IT. 3. Previous treatment with an anti-GD2 antibody. 4. Hypersensitivity to the study drugs or any of their ingredients (covers IT and naxitamab). 5. Simultaneous treatment with other drugs which might interact with naxitamab or IT regimen. 6. Persistent toxicity related to prior therapy, making it impossible to treat with naxitamab. 7. Significant cardiac conduction abnormalities, including known familial prolonged QT syndrome, or screening corrected QT interval (QTc) \>480 msec. 8. Symptoms of congestive heart failure or left ventricular ejection fraction \<50%. 9. Inadequate pulmonary function defined as evidence of dyspnea at rest, exercise intolerance, and/or chronic oxygen requirement. In addition, room air pulse oximetry \< 94% and/or abnormal pulmonary function tests if these assessments are clinically indicated. 10. Requirement, or likely requirement, for corticosteroids at doses \>10 mg prednisolone (or equivalent) per day or other immunosuppressive agents. 11. Diagnosis of other malignancies before study inclusion. 12. Planning to become pregnant (while being treated with IT or naxitamab), pregnancy or breastfeeding. 13. Other acute or persistent disorders, behaviors or abnormal laboratory test results, which might increase the risk related to the participation in this clinical trial or to taking the study drug, or which might influence the interpretation of the study results, or which, in the investigator's opinion, disqualify a patient from participating in the tri
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
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The places running it
2 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Mother and Child Institute
RECRUITINGWarsaw, Mazowian, 01-211, Poland
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Wroclaw Medical University
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGWroclaw, 50-556, Poland
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