Can a simple drug make CAR-T therapy safer?
NCT ID NCT04148430
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether the drug anakinra can prevent or reduce severe side effects like brain problems and cytokine release syndrome caused by CAR-T cell therapy. About 62 adults with certain B-cell blood cancers who are getting CAR-T treatment will receive anakinra. The goal is to see if this approach makes the therapy safer without affecting its cancer-fighting power.
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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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62 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Oct 2019
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2026
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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18 years and older
- 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: * Patients (age \>/= 18) with a diagnosis of relapsed CD19+ B-cell ALL, MCL, or NHL receiving commercially approved CD19-specific CAR T cells (e.g. tisagenleuleucel, axicabtagene, brexucabtagene autoleucel, etc) are eligible for the study Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with uncontrolled systemic fungal and bacterial infections * Patients with known hypersensitivity to E. coli-derived proteins * Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test (women who have undergone surgical sterilization or who have been postmenopausal for at least 2 years are not considered to be of childbearing potential) * Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Hackensack Meridian Health (Data collection only)
Hackensack, New Jersey, 07601, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, 10065, United States
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