New stem cell method aims to cut transplant risks for blood cancer patients
NCT ID NCT02323867
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a stem cell transplant method that removes certain immune cells (T and B cells) from donated stem cells before giving them to patients with blood cancers like leukemia or lymphoma. The goal is to help the new cells grow (engraft) while reducing the risk of graft-versus-host disease, a serious complication. About 140 participants will receive this treatment to see if it improves survival and reduces side effects.
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 with T cell and B cell depletion
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could offer a safer way to use donor stem cells for patients with blood cancers, potentially reducing severe side effects and improving survival.
- What could go wrong
- This is a Phase 2 study with 140 participants, so results are still early. The procedure carries risks like infection, graft failure, or graft-versus-host disease, and may not work for everyone.
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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 140 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Start date
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Oct 2014
- Expected to finish
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Oct 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.
- Ages
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Up to 23 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: 1. Leukemias/lymphomas * Acute myeloid leukemia, primary or secondary Disease status: remission or \<10% bone marrow blasts * Myelodysplasia * Acute lymphoblastic leukemia Disease status: in hematologic remission * Chronic myelogenous leukemia Disease status: chronic phase, accelerated phase or blast crisis now in second chronic phase. * Mixed lineage or biphenotypic acute leukemia * Lymphoblastic lymphoma Disease status: remission * Burkitt's lymphoma/leukemia: Disease status- in remission 2. Acceptable organ status clearance 3. No active untreated infection. Patients with possible fungal infections must have had at least 2 weeks of appropriate anti-fungal antibiotics and be asymptomatic 4. Signed informed consent. 5. Negative pregnancy test for females of childbearing potential. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients who do not meet disease, organ or infectious criteria. 2. No suitable donor 3. Received previous allogeneic transplant Donor must be either unrelated, mismatched up to one antigen/one antigen and one allele or a related, HLA match other than a sibling.
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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 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103, United States
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