New cocktail of drugs shows promise against rare lymphoma
NCT ID NCT07542912
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study is testing a combination of three drugs—sintilimab, chidamide, and azacitidine—as a first treatment for people with early-stage extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, a rare blood cancer. About 30 participants will receive the drugs, and their response will guide further treatment, possibly including radiation. The goal is to see if this approach can make the cancer disappear completely.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- sintilimab, chidamide, and azacitidine
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could offer a new first-line treatment option for early-stage NK/T-cell lymphoma, potentially improving complete remission rates and reducing the need for chemotherapy.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-phase trial with only 30 participants, so results may not apply to all patients. The drug combination may cause side effects, and it's not yet known if it works better than current standard treatments.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 30 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Jun 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2029
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: 1. Willingness to participate in the clinical study. 2. Age ≥ 18 years at the time of signing the Informed Consent Form (ICF). 3. Newly diagnosed ENKTL confirmed by histopathology at the study center. 4. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 2. 5. At least one evaluable or measurable lesion 6. Ann Arbor stage I-II disease. 7. PINK-E score ≥ 1. 8. Adequate organ and bone marrow function, with no severe hematopoietic dysfunction or abnormalities in cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, or thyroid function, and no immunodeficiency. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Aggressive natural killer cell leukemia. 2. Presence of hemophagocytic syndrome. 3. Primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma or secondary CNS involvement. 4. Patients with a known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and/or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). 5. Patients with active chronic hepatitis B or active hepatitis C.
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
Guangzhou, China
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