New test aims to predict cancer return after bone marrow transplant
NCT ID NCT06569095
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether detecting MDS stem cells using a special lab test (flow cytometry) can predict if the disease will come back after a stem cell transplant. Researchers will follow 163 MDS patients for one year after transplant to see if this method is better than current monitoring. The goal is to improve early detection of relapse.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could lead to a better way to predict relapse in MDS patients after transplant, helping doctors intervene earlier.
- What could go wrong
- This is an observational study, not a treatment trial. It may not show a clear benefit, and results may not apply to all MDS patients.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 163 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Dec 2024
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2027
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.
Who is studied
To determine whether there was any difference in relapse between the pre-transplant MRD-positive and -negative groups, the cumulative incidence approach was used with a test for equivalence of CIF for the difference in the Kaplan-Meier estimate of the 1-year CIR. With a planned sample size of 163 AML/MDS patients, 80% power can be achieved against the hypothesis of CIR as 18.3% and 3.6% for cases in the pre-transplant MRD-positive and -negative groups at a significance level of P = 0.05 in Student's one-tailed t-test.
- Ages
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15 to 70 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: * Patients with Myelodysplastic syndromes; * Between 15 and 70 years old; * Subjects are able to provide written informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * Subjects who cannot comply with the study; * Patient has severe cardiac (ejection fraction \<50%), hepatic (total bilirubin \>34μmol/L, ALT, AST \>2x upper limit of normal) or renal (blood creatinine \>130μmol/L) disease; * Uncontrolled serious infection; * Other conditions that do not tolerate transplantation or other therapies.
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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
4 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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Chinese PLA General Hospital
RECRUITINGBeijing, China
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Peking University People's Hospital
RECRUITINGBeijing, China
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The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University
RECRUITINGZhengzhou, China
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Wuhan TongJi Hospital
RECRUITINGWuhan, China
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