Poop pills to prevent transplant rejection? new trial tests fecal transplants in blood cancer patients
NCT ID NCT04935684
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Sep 21, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether a fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) can prevent graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) in 150 adults with blood cancers who receive a stem cell transplant. Patients get a single FMT enema within four weeks of transplant. The main goal is to see if FMT improves survival without GvHD or relapse one year later.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) given as an enema
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could offer a simple way to prevent serious complications after stem cell transplants, improving survival and quality of life for blood cancer patients.
- What could go wrong
- This is a mid-stage trial with 150 people, so results are not yet proven. FMT carries a small risk of infection or side effects, and the benefit may not be seen in all patients.
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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 150 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Dec 2022
- Expected to finish
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May 2030
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.
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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: * Patient aged 18 or over * Men and women * Patients affiliated with a social-security organization * Patients undergoing a myelo-ablative allo-HSCT for a controlled haematologic malignant disease, with peripheral stem cells, whatever the type of donor (except cord blood) * Signed and dated informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Status of tumor progression at the time of allo-HSCT * Inability to understand the protocol (linguistic barrier, cognitive difficulties) * Medical history of another progressive cancer or occurrence in the 3 previous years (excluding basal cell carcinoma) * Presence of a simultaneous serious and uncontrolled disease (severe cardiac, renal, hepatic or respiratory failure, severe sepsis) * Fecal incontinence * Participation in another clinical trial studying an allograft procedure including the type of graft, the type of immunosuppression, a preventive or a curative treatment of GvHD, or studying the effectiveness of a FMT in another indication. * Pregnant women * Patient under guardianship, curatorship or protection of justice
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
20 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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Département d'hématologie CAC Rouen
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGRouen, France
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Hématologie clinique CHU Besançon
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGBesançon, France
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Hématologie clinique Institut de Cancérologie de la Loire
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGSaint-Etienne, France
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Hématologie clinique et thérapie cellulaire Hôpital Haut-Lévèque
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGPessac, France
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IUC T - Oncopôle
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGToulouse, France
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Plateforme d'Investigation Clinique / Centre d'Investigation Clinique - Inserm 1405, CHU Gabriel Montpied Clermont-Ferrand
RECRUITINGClermont-Ferrand, France
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Service Maladies du sang CHU Angers
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGAngers, France
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Service d'Hématologie Adultes Hôpital Necker
RECRUITINGParis, France
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Service d'Hématologie Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGLyon, France
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Service d'Hématologie Clinique CHU Nantes
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGNantes, France
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Service d'Hématologie Clinique et Thérapie Cellulaire CHU Amiens Picardie - Site Sud
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGAmiens, France
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Service d'Hématologie clinique Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGParis, France
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Service d'Hématologie et de Médecine interne Hôpital Brabois CHRU Nancy
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGNancy, France
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Service d'hématologie clinique, département de greffe de moelle CHU Nice
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGNice, France
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Service d'hématologie greffe Hôpital St Louis
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGParis, France
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Service d'hématologie greffe Hôpital St Louis
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGPoitiers, France
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Service de thérapie Cellulaire et d'Hématologie Clinique Adulte CHU Estaing - Clermont-Ferrand
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGClermont-Ferrand, France
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Service de thérapie cellulaire et l'hématologie clinique adulte CHU Limoges
RECRUITINGLimoges, France
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Service des Maladies du sang Hôpital HURIEZ, CHRU de Lille
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGLille, France
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Service hématologie CHU Grenoble
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGGrenoble, France
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