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CompletedNCT02013648Updated Feb 23, 2024

Randomized Phase III Study of Intensive Chemotherapy With or Without Dasatinib (Sprycel™)

A Phase 3 interventional study of Dasatinib and Cytarabine in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), sponsored by University of Ulm. Completed at 54 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-02-23.

Sponsored by University of Ulm · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
204
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a randomized phase III open-label, multicenter trial evaluating standard induction therapy (daunorubicin [DNR] and cytarabine [Ara-C]) and consolidation therapy (high-dose cytarabine [HDAC]) with or without dasatinib in adult patients with newly diagnosed CBF-AML

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This is a randomized phase III open-label, multicenter trial evaluating standard induction therapy (daunorubicin [DNR] and cytarabine [Ara-C]) and consolidation therapy (high-dose cytarabine [HDAC]) with or without dasatinib in adult patients with newly diagnosed CBF-AML; in the investigational arm, consolidation therapy is followed by a one-year maintenance therapy with dasatinib. Patients with molecular disease persistence or molecular relapse as assessed by quantitative RQ-PCR for the CBF fusion transcripts will be eligible for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation before overt hematologic relapse occurs. Primary endpoint is event-free survival.

AML patients will be assessed for the CBF fusion genes in one of two AMLSG central laboratories within 48 hours of diagnosis, and only patients with CBF-AML will be enrolled.

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Conditions studied

  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

Keywords

  • AML
  • Dasatinib
  • Core Binding Factor (CBF)
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In context

Leukemia

5,441 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukemia; 636 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 204 is above the median of 38 across 4,247 interventional studies indexed under Leukemia.

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Lead sponsor

University of Ulm is the lead sponsor of 141 studies on the registry; 26 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Core-binding factor (CBF) AML with molecular diagnosis of RUNX1-RUNX1T1 fusion transcript resulting from t(8;21)(q22;q22.1) (or a variant form) or of CBFB-MYH11 fusion transcript resulting from inv(16)(p13.1q22)/t(16;16)(p13.1;q22) as assessed in one of the central AMLSG reference laboratories (Ulm, Hannover)
  • Age ≥ 18; there is no upper age limit
  • No prior chemotherapy for leukemia except hydroxyurea for up to 5 days during the diagnostic screening phase
  • Non-pregnant and non-nursing. Due to the unknown teratogenic potential of dasatinib in humans, pregnant or nursing patients may not be enrolled. Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within a sensitivity of at least 25 mIU/mL with-in 72 hours prior to registration. Women of child-bearing potential must either commit to continued abstinence from heterosexual intercourse or begin TWO acceptable methods of birth control - one highly effective method (e.g., IUD, hormonal, tubal ligation, or partner's vasectomy), and one additional effective method (e.g., latex condom, diaphragm, or cervical cap) - AT THE SAME TIME, at least four weeks before she begins dasatinib therapy. "Women of childbearing potential" is defined as a sexually active mature woman who has not undergone a hysterectomy or who has had menses at any time in the preceding 24 consecutive months.
  • Men must agree not to father a child and must use a latex condom during any sexual contact with women of childbearing potential while taking dasatinib and for 3 months after therapy is stopped, even if they have undergone a successful vasectomy.
  • Signed written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Performance status WHO >2
  • Pulmonary edema and/or pleural/pericardial effusion within 14 days of day 1. If edema/effusion resolves to CTC Grade ≤1, patients can be treated with dasatinib.
  • Patients with ejection fraction \<50% by echocardiography within 14 days of day 1
  • Organ insufficiency (creatinine >1.5x upper normal serum level; bilirubin, AST or AP >2.5x upper normal serum level; heart failure NYHA III/IV; severe obstructive or restrictive ventilation disorder)
  • Uncontrolled infection
  • Patients with a "currently active" second malignancy other than non-melanoma skin cancers. Patients are not considered to have a "currently active" malignancy, if they have completed therapy and are considered by their physician to be at less than 30% risk of relapse within one year.
  • Severe neurological or psychiatric disorder interfering with ability of giving an informed consent
  • Known positive for HIV, active HBV, HCV, or Hepatitis A infection
  • Bleeding disorder independent of leukemia
  • No consent for registration, storage and processing of the individual disease characteristics and course as well as information of the family physician and/or other physicians involved in the treatment of the patient about study participation.
  • No consent for biobanking.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
204 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Standard arm

    Patients will receive induction therapy with daunorubicin 60 mg/m2/day administered on days 1-3 (when daunorubicin is not available due to supply shortage: Idarubicin 12mg²/day on days 1,3,5) and cytarabine 200 mg/m2/day administered by continuous IV infusion on days 1-7. Patients achieving PR only at the end of cycle 1 will receive a second induction cycle with daunorubicin 50 mg/m2/day (when daunorubicin is not available due to supply shortage: Idarubicin 10 mg²/day on days 1 and 3) administered on days 1-3 and cytarabine 200 mg/m2/day administered by cont. IV infusion daily on days 1-5. Patients will receive 4 cycles of consolidation therapy. Consolidation therapy consists of high-dose cytarabine 3 g/m2 (\>60 years: 1 g/m2) q12h, days 1-3 administered intravenously over three hours. Follow-up period: There is no maintenance therapy in the standard arm. Patients will be closely followed, in particular for molecular disease persistence or molecular relapse.

    Drug: Cytarabine · Drug: Daunorubicin · Drug: Idarubicin

  • Experimental
    Investigational arm

    Patients will receive induction therapy with daunorubicin 60 mg/m2/day on days 1-3 (when daunorubicin is not available due to supply shortage: Idarubicin 12mg²/day on days 1,3,5) and cytarabine 200 mg/m2/day by cont. IV infusion on days 1-7. Patients will receive dasatinib 100 mg QD on days 8-21. Patients achieving PR only at the end of cycle 1 will receive a 2nd induction cycle with daunorubicin 50 mg/m2/day on days 1-3 (when daunorubicin is not available due to supply shortage: Idarubicin 10 mg²/day on days 1 and 3) and cytarabine 200 mg/m2/day by cont. IV infusion on days 1-5. Patients will receive dasatinib 100 mg QD on days 6-21. Consolidation therapy (4 cycles). Treatment consists of high-dose cytarabine 3 g/m2 (\>60 years: 1 g/m2) q12h, days 1-3 iv over 3 hours. Patients will receive dasatinib 100 mg QD on days 4-21. Maintenance therapy: Patients completing consolidation therapy will continue to receive single agent dasatinib 100 mg QD for one year (or until relapse).

    Drug: Dasatinib · Drug: Cytarabine · Drug: Daunorubicin · Drug: Idarubicin

Interventions

  • DrugDasatinib

    Also known as: Sprycel

  • DrugCytarabine

    Also known as: ARA-cell

  • DrugDaunorubicin

    Also known as: Daunoblastin

  • DrugIdarubicin
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Event-free Survival

    To assess event-free survival (EFS) after intensive induction (daunorubicin and cytarabine) and consolidation (high-dose cytarabine) chemotherapy with or without dasatinib in patients with CBF-AML

    Time frame: 4 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Cumulative incidence of relapse (CIR)

    Time frame: 4 years

  2. Cumulative incidence of death (CID)

    Time frame: 4 years

  3. overall survival

    Time frame: 4 years

  4. relapse-free survival

    Time frame: 4 years

  5. PIA analysis

    Pharmacodynamic inhibition of KIT as assessed by the KIT plasma inhibitory assay (PIA)

    Time frame: 4 years

  6. toxicity

    Type, frequency, severity (graded using the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events \[NCI CTCAE\] version 4.03), timing and relatedness of non-hematologic toxicity observed during different treatment cycles.

    Time frame: 7 months (standard arm) / 19 months (investigational arm)

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Study locations

54 sites
  • Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin V
    Innsbruck, 6020, Austria
  • Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern
    Linz, 4010, Austria
  • Krankenhaus der Elisabethinen Linz GmbH
    Linz, 4020, Austria
  • Universitätsklinik der PMU
    Salzburg, 5020, Austria
  • Hanuschkrankenhaus
    Wien, 1140, Austria
  • MVZ Osthessen
    Fulda, Hessen 36043, Germany
  • Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein
    Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein 24116, Germany
  • Klinikum Aschaffenburg-Alzenau
    Aschaffenburg, 63739, Germany
  • Helios Klinikum Bad Saarow, Klinik für Hämatologie
    Bad Saarow, 15526, Germany
  • Klinikum am Urban
    Berlin, 10967, Germany
  • Klinikum Neukölln
    Berlin, 12351, Germany
  • Charité Universitätsmedizin Campus Virchow Klinikum
    Berlin, 13353, Germany
  • Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum
    Bochum, Germany
  • Universitätsklinikum Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik III
    Bonn, 53105, Germany
  • Städtisches Klinikum Braunschweig gGmbH
    Braunschweig, 38114, Germany
  • Klinikum Bremen Mitte gGmbH
    Bremen, 28117, Germany
  • Klinikum Darmstadt Medizinische Klinik V
    Darmstadt, 64276, Germany
  • St. Johannes Hospital
    Dortmund, 44137, Germany
  • Universitätsklinikum Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik
    Düsseldorf, 40001, Germany
  • Klinikum Esslingen
    Esslingen, 73730, Germany
  • Malteser Krankenhaus St. Franziskus-Hospital
    Flensburg, 24939, Germany
  • Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
    Freiburg, 79106, Germany
  • Wilhelm-Anton-Hospital gGmbH
    Goch, 47574, Germany
  • Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
    Göttingen, 37075, Germany
  • Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
    Hamburg, 20246, Germany
  • Klinikum Hanau GmbH
    Hanau, 63450, Germany
  • Klinikum Region Hannover GmbH
    Hannover, 30449, Germany
  • Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
    Hannover, 30625, Germany
  • SLK-Kliniken GmbH
    Heilbronn, 74078, Germany
  • Marienhospital Klinikum der Ruhr-Universität
    Herne, 44625, Germany
  • Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes
    Homburg, 66421, Germany
  • Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe gGmbH
    Karlsruhe, 76133, Germany
  • Gemeinschaftspraxis Hämato-Onkologie
    Lebach, 66822, Germany
  • Klinikum Lippe GmbH
    Lemgo, 32657, Germany
  • Märkische Kliniken GmbH
    Lüdenscheid, 58515, Germany
  • Univ-Klinikum der Otto-von Guericke-Universität
    Magdeburg, 39120, Germany
  • III. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
    Mainz, 55131, Germany
  • Johannes Wesling Klinikum
    Minden, 32429, Germany
  • Stauferklinikum Schwäbisch Gmünd
    Mutlangen, 73557, Germany
  • Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU
    München, 81675, Germany
  • Ortenau Klinikum
    Offenburg, 77654, Germany
  • PIUS Hospital
    Oldenburg, 26121, Germany
  • Klinikum Oldenburg gGmbH
    Oldenburg, 26133, Germany
  • Klinikum Passau
    Passau, 94032, Germany
  • Universitätsklinikum Regensburg
    Regensburg, 93053, Germany
  • Caritasklinkum Saarbrücken St. Theresia
    Saarbrücken, 66113, Germany
  • Klinikum Stuttgart
    Stuttgart, 70174, Germany
  • Vinzenz von Paul Kliniken gGmbH Marienhospital
    Stuttgart, 70199, Germany
  • Klinikum Mutterhaus der Borromäerinnen gGmbH
    Trier, 54290, Germany
  • Medizinische Universitätsklinik
    Tübingen, 72076, Germany
  • Universitätsklinikum Ulm Zentrum für Innere Medizin
    Ulm, 89081, Germany
  • Schwarzwald-Baar Klinikum
    Villingen Schwenningen, 78052, Germany
  • Kliniken Essen Süd
    Werden, 45239, Germany
  • HELIOS Klinikum
    Wuppertal, 42283, Germany
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References and documents

Publications

  • Paschka P, Schlenk RF, Weber D, Benner A, Bullinger L, Heuser M, Gaidzik VI, Thol F, Agrawal M, Teleanu V, Lubbert M, Fiedler W, Radsak M, Krauter J, Horst HA, Greil R, Mayer K, Kundgen A, Martens U, Heil G, Salih HR, Hertenstein B, Schwanen C, Wulf G, Lange E, Pfreundschuh M, Ringhoffer M, Girschikofsky M, Heinicke T, Kraemer D, Gohring G, Ganser A, Dohner K, Dohner H. Adding dasatinib to intensive treatment in core-binding factor acute myeloid leukemia-results of the AMLSG 11-08 trial. Leukemia. 2018 Jul;32(7):1621-1630. doi: 10.1038/s41375-018-0129-6. Epub 2018 Apr 17. PubMed 29720733 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 23, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02013648
Lead sponsor
University of Ulm
Responsible party
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Doehner (Prof. Dr., University of Ulm) — Principal investigator
First posted
Dec 17, 2013
Start date
Jul 2014
Primary completion
Feb 2024
Completion
Feb 2024
Last update
Feb 23, 2024

Study contacts

Hartmut Doehner, Prof. Dr.
principal investigator · University of Ulm

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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