Younger donors may improve stem cell transplant success for leukemia patients
NCT ID NCT04547049
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study compares stem cell transplants from two types of donors for people with leukemia or myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS): younger non-family members (age 40 or under) and older first-degree relatives (over 50). The goal is to see which donor leads to better overall survival. The trial involves 232 participants and uses a standard chemotherapy and transplant procedure. It is currently active but no longer recruiting new participants.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- stem cell transplant (haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that using stem cells from younger, non-family donors leads to better survival and fewer complications than using older family donors.
- What could go wrong
- This is a Phase 3 trial, but results may not apply to all patients. Stem cell transplants carry serious risks like infection, graft-versus-host disease, and organ damage.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 3
Large-scale testing in a bigger group. Usually the last step before a treatment can be approved.
- Participants
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About 232 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Sep 2020
- Expected to finish
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Apr 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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13 to 78 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.
Patient Inclusion Criteria: * Patient age 13-78 years * Absence of a suitable HLA identical related or unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donor * Absence of a suitable partially HLA-mismatched (haploidentical), first-degree related donor aged between 18 and 50 * Presence of both HLA haploidentical young non-first-degree (age ≤ 40) and older first-degree (age \>50) donors Eligible diagnoses: AML(excluding APL) with at least one of the following: * median- or high- risk according to the WHO prognostic stratification system * failure to achieve CR after 2 cycles of induction chemotherapy * AML arising from MDS or a myeloproliferative disorder, or secondary AML * patients in CR2 or beyond Mixed-phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) in morphological remission Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T or B) in morphological remission MDS with at least one of the following: * IPSS score of INT-2 or greater * IPSS score of INT-1 with life-threatening cytopenias, including those generally requiring greater than weekly transfusions * A first allo-HCT * Adequate end-organ function * ECOG performance status \< 2 * No other contraindications for HSCT * Signature of the informed consent Patient Exclusion Criteria * Availability of suitable HLA identical related or unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donors * Availability of suitable partially HLA-mismatched (haploidentical), first-degree related donor aged between 18 and 50 * Not the first allo-HCT * Presence of uncontrolled bacterial, viral, or fungal infection * Patients with severe heart, lung, liver and kidney insufficiency * HIV-positive patients * Women of childbearing potential who are pregnant (β-HCG+) or breast feeding * Patients with a psychiatric history * ECOG performance status ≥ 2 * Patients with malignancies other than the primary disease * Refusal to sign the informed consent Donor Inclusion Criteria: * The donor and recipient must be HLA haploidentical * Meets institutional selection criteria and medically fit to donate * Lack of recipient anti-donor HLA antibody Donor Exclusion Criteria: * The donor and recipient are HLA identical * Has not donated blood products to recipient
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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.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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The Affiliated People's Hospital of Ningbo University
Ningbo, China
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The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
Nanjing, China
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The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University
Ningbo, China
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The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University
Suzhou, China
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The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China
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Xiangya Hospital Central South University
Changsha, China
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Xinqiao Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Trauma and Chemical Poisoning, Army Medical University
Chongqing, China
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Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital
Hangzhou, China
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