New hope for AML patients: Triple-Drug combo targets Tough-to-Treat leukemia
NCT ID NCT07581002
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Sep 16, 2026 · Updated 21 times
Summary
This study tests whether adding pivekimab sunirine to the standard drugs venetoclax and azacitidine helps adults with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who are not healthy enough for intensive chemotherapy. About 660 participants will be randomly assigned to receive either the triple combination or standard care. The goal is to see if the new combo improves remission rates and overall survival.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- pivekimab sunirine, venetoclax, and azacitidine
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this combination could offer a new, more effective treatment option for AML patients who cannot tolerate intensive chemotherapy.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-to-mid-stage trial, so the added benefit over standard care is unproven. Side effects from the combination may be significant.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2/3
Runs two stages together: whether the treatment works, then large-scale confirmation.
- Participants
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About 660 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2026
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2032
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
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: 1. Participants must have newly diagnosed, untreated confirmed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) diagnosis as per the 5th edition of World Health Organization (WHO) criteria with a projected life expectancy of at least 12 weeks. 2. CD123-positive 3. Ineligible for intensive induction therapy (chemotherapy) defined by: * ≥ 75 years of age OR * ≥ 18 to 74 years of age with at least one of the following co-morbidities: * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 2 or 3 * Cardiac history of congestive heart failure requiring treatment or ejection fraction ≤ 50% or chronic stable angina * Diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) ≤ 65% or forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) ≤ 65% * Creatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min to \< 45 mL/min * Moderate hepatic impairment with total bilirubin \> 1.5 to ≤ 3.0 × upper limit of normal (ULN) * Any other comorbidity that the physician judges to be incompatible with intensive chemotherapy must be reviewed and approved by the medical monitor before study enrollment. 4. ECOG performance status 0 to 2 for subjects ≥ 75 years of age or 0 to 3 for subjects ≥ 18 to 74 years of age. 5. White blood cell (WBC) count \< 25 × 10\^9/L (hydroxyurea is permitted prior to beginning study treatment to reduce the WBC count to \< 25 × 10\^9/L). 6. Subjects must have adequate organ function: * Adequate renal function as demonstrated by a creatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min; calculated by the Cockcroft Gault formula or measured by 24-hour urine collection. * Adequate liver function as demonstrated by: * Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3.0 × ULN\*, * Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3.0 × ULN\*, ---\*Unless considered due to leukemic organ involvement * Subjects \< 75 years of age may have total bilirubin ≤ 3 x ULN * Subjects ≥ 75 years of age total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 × ULN unless elevated level is considered to be due to Gilbert's syndrome or hemolysis, total bilirubin must be \< 3 x ULN and direct bilirubin \< 1 x ULN * Activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) and prothrombin time (PT) not to exceed 1.5 × ULN International Normalized Ratio (INR) \<1.5 Exclusion Criteria: * Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), blast phase of CML or AML with t(9;22) or BCR:ABL1 fusion, transformation from myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML), myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm unspecified, or myeloid sarcoma. * Known active central nervous system (CNS) involvement with AML. Participants may have non-CNS extramedullary disease (excludes participants with myeloid sarcoma as the only disease manifestation at screening). * Participants with history of any malignancies within 2 years prior to screening with exception of: adequately treated in situ carcinoma of the cervix uteri or carcinoma in situ of the breast, in situ - carcinomas of bladder and esophagus; basal cell carcinoma of the skin or localized squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, and previous malignancy confined and surgically resected (or treated with other modalities) with curative intent and have no evidence of relapse within 2 years. * Participants must not have received a hypomethylating agent, any BCL-2 inhibitors including venetoclax, and/or chemotherapeutic agent for Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) or AML, CAR-T cell therapy, be currently participating in another clinical study, received any investigational treatment within 30 days prior to the first use of study combination product. * Female participant must not be pregnant or breastfeeding and is not considering becoming pregnant or donating eggs during the study and for approximately 7 months after the last dose of any study drug. Female participant of childbearing potential must agree to use at least 1 protocol specified method of birth control and male participant, if sexually active with female partner(s) of childbearing potential, must agree to practice the protocol-specified contraception.
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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
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
28 sites in 7 countries. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Asan Medical Center /ID# 279395
RECRUITINGSeoul, Seoul Teugbyeolsi, 05505, South Korea
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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire D'Angers /ID# 280390
RECRUITINGAngers, Pays de la Loire Region, 49933, France
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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux /ID# 279001
RECRUITINGPessac, New Aquitaine, 33604, France
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China Medical University Hospital /ID# 279261
RECRUITINGTaichung, 40447, Taiwan
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City of Hope National Medical Center /ID# 279568
RECRUITINGDuarte, California, 91010, United States
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Clinica Universidad de Navarra - Pamplona /ID# 279516
RECRUITINGPamplona, Navarre, 31008, Spain
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Hadassah Medical Center-Hebrew University /ID# 278866
RECRUITINGJerusalem, 91120, Israel
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Hanusch-Krankenhaus /ID# 279467
RECRUITINGVienna, State of Vienna, 1140, Austria
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Hospital Universitario Puerta De Hierro /ID# 279660
RECRUITINGMajadahonda, Madrid, 28222, Spain
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Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital /ID# 279294
RECRUITINGTaoyuan City, 333, Taiwan
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Medizinische Universitaet Graz /ID# 278830
RECRUITINGGraz, Styria, 8010, Austria
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Medizinische Universitaet Wien /ID# 278825
RECRUITINGVienna, 1090, Austria
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Moffitt Cancer Center /ID# 279192
RECRUITINGTampa, Florida, 33612, United States
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Montefiore Medical Center - Moses Campus /ID# 279399
RECRUITINGThe Bronx, New York, 10467, United States
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National Taiwan University Hospital /ID# 279289
RECRUITINGTaipei, 100, Taiwan
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Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen /ID# 278824
RECRUITINGLinz, Upper Austria, 4010, Austria
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Rabin Medical Center /ID# 278714
RECRUITINGPetah Tikva, Central District, 4941492, Israel
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Rambam Health Care Campus- Haifa /ID# 278719
RECRUITINGHaifa, 3109601, Israel
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Samsung Medical Center /ID# 279397
RECRUITINGSeoul, Seoul Teugbyeolsi, 06351, South Korea
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Seoul National University Bundang Hospital /ID# 279634
RECRUITINGSeongnam-si, Gyeonggido, 13620, South Korea
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Seoul National University Hospital /ID# 279396
RECRUITINGSeoul, Seoul Teugbyeolsi, 03080, South Korea
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Shaare Zedek Medical Center /ID# 278712
RECRUITINGJerusalem, 9103102, Israel
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Taichung Veterans General Hospital /ID# 279296
RECRUITINGTaichung, 407, Taiwan
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Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center /ID# 278717
RECRUITINGTel Aviv, Tel Aviv, 6423906, Israel
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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center /ID# 279402
RECRUITINGHouston, Texas, 77030, United States
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Universitaetsklinikum St. Poelten /ID# 278835
RECRUITINGSankt Pölten, Lower Austria, 3100, Austria
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Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University /ID# 279006
RECRUITINGAtlanta, Georgia, 30322, United States
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Yonsei University Health System Severance Hospital /ID# 279933
RECRUITINGSeoul, Seoul Teugbyeolsi, 03722, South Korea
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