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TerminatedNCT04219319Updated Aug 16, 2022

LCAR-T2C CAR-T Cells in Relapsed or Refractory CD4+ T-cell Lymphoma

A Phase 1 interventional study of Efficacy of LCAR-T2C CAR-T cells in CD4+ T Lymphocyte Tumor (T Cell Lymphoma and T Cell Leukemia), sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University. Terminated at 3 sites in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-08-16.

Sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was terminated
Both the sponsors and collaborator are considering terminating the study
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
4
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

A Phase I, Multicenter study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and Efficacy of LCAR-T2C CAR-T cells in relapsed or refractory CD4+T Lymphocyte Tumor Patients.

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This is an open, dose escalation/dose extension study of LCAR-T2C CAR-T cells administrered to patients with T lymphocyte tumor. The aim of the study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of LCAR-T2C CAR-T cells. The auto-CAR-T cells will be infused in single-dose.

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Conditions studied

  • CD4+ T Lymphocyte Tumor (T Cell Lymphoma and T Cell Leukemia)
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In context

Lymphoma, T-Cell

310 studies on the registry are indexed under Lymphoma, T-Cell; 78 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 4 is below the median of 37 across 270 interventional studies indexed under Lymphoma, T-Cell.

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Lead sponsor

The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University is the lead sponsor of 568 studies on the registry; 317 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Signed form (ICF)
  2. Age 18 Years to 75 Years
  3. Pathological diagnosis of /relapsed CD4+ T lymphocyte tumor (one of the following):

    1. T-cell Non-Hodgkin lymphoma(T-NHL):The best response is progressive disease(PD) or stable disease(SD) after at least 1 (at least 2 complete cycle of therapy)
    2. T-cell Acute lymphoblastic leukemia(T-ALL):The best response is not complete response(CR) after induction therapy
  4. is necessary at Screening
  5. ≥ 3 months
  6. (ECOG) Performance Status grade of 0 -2.
  7. The screening phase clinical laboratory values meet the following criteria. Laboratory test(s) may be repeated once, to determine if the subject qualifies for study participation :

Blood routine:

HGB≥6g/dL;≥20×10\^9/L; ≥1.0×10\^9/L; LY≥0.3×10\^9/L

Blood biochemical parameters:

  1. Aspartate and (AST, ALT) ≤ 2.5 times (in the presence of liver , AST and ALT≤5 times ULN)
  2. Serum creatinine (Scr) ≤ 1.5 times ULN, estimated (eGFR) > 60mL/min (only when Scr>1.5 times ULN)
  3. Total ≤ 1.5 times of the normal upper limit (ULN)
  4. (INR) ≤ 1.5 times ULN, PT≤ 1.5 times ULN, APTT≤ 1.5 times ULN

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Prior treatment with CAR-T therapy directed at any target.
  2. Any therapy that is targeted to CD4.
  3. Prior treatment with an stem cell transplant
  4. Any besides the T lymphocyte tumor categories under study, exceptions include

    1. Any other malignancy curatively treated and disease-free for at least 2 years prior to enrollment
    2. History of non-melanoma skin cancer with sufficient treatment and currently no evidence of recurrence
  5. Those who are positive for any index of surface antigen (HBsAg), hepatitis B virus deoxyribonucleic acid (HBV DNA), antibody (HCV-Ab), hepatitis C virus ribonucleic acid (HCV RNA), and antibody (HIV-Ab)
  6. The following cardiac conditions:

    1. (NYHA) stage III or IV congestive heart failure
    2. Myocardial infarction or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) 6 months prior to enrollment
    3. History of ventricular arrhythmia or unexplained syncope, not believed to be vasovagal in nature or due to dehydration
    4. History of severe non-ischemic cardiomyopathy
    5. Impaired cardiac function ( \<45%) as assessed by echocardiogram or multiple-gated acquisition (MUGA) scan (performed ≤8 weeks of apheresis)
  7. Prior antitumor therapy as follows, prior to apheresis:

    1. Targeted therapy, epigenetic therapy, or treatment with an drug or used an invasive investigational medical device within 14 days or at least 5 half-lives, whichever is less.
    2. Monoclonal antibody treatment for multiple myeloma within 21 days.
    3. Cytotoxic therapy within 14 days.
    4. Radiotherapy within 14 days.
    5. Participated in other clinical trials within 30 days.
  8. Toxicity from previous anticancer therapy must resolve to baseline levels or to Grade 1 or less except for alopecia or peripheral neuropathy.
  9. With central nervous system involvement.
  10. Serious underlying medical condition, such as:

    1. Evidence of serious active viral, bacterial, or uncontrolled systemic fungal infection
    2. Active or unstable diseases or autoimmune diseases that have been suffered within 3 years and have the possibility of recurrence
    3. Overt clinical evidence of dementia or altered mental status
  11. Pregnant or breast-feeding, or planning to become pregnant while enrolled in this study or within 100 days after receiving study treatment.
  12. Plans to father a child while enrolled in this study or within 100 days after receiving study treatment.
  13. With obvious hemorrhagic tendency such as gastrointestinal hemorrhage, coagulation disorders and hypersplenism
  14. Oxygen is needed to maintain sufficient blood oxygen saturation(≥95%)
  15. Suffer from chronic diseases that require treatment with systemic or other agents ,Received a cumulative dose of corticosteroids equivalent to ≥20 mg/day of prednisone within 7 days prior to apheresis
  16. CNS diseases with clinical significance in the past or at the time of screening
  17. Vaccinated with live, attenuated vaccine within 4 weeks prior to apheresis
  18. Major surgery within 2 weeks prior to apheresis, or has surgery planned during the study or within 2 weeks after study treatment administration. (Note: subjects with planned surgical procedures to be conducted under local anesthesia may participate.)
  19. Known life threatening allergies, , or intolerance to LCAR-T2C CAR-T cells or its , including DMSO (refer to Investigator's Brochure)
  20. Presence of any condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would prohibit the patient from undergoing treatment under this protocol
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(28)

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Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

Line of therapy

A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.

“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)

Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.

Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.

Allogeneic and autologous transplant

Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

Excipients

The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
4 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Experimental: LCAR-T2C CAR-T cells in relapsed or refractory CD4+ T lymphocyte tumor

    An open label, multi center, single arm Phase I study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of LCAR-T2C CAR-T cells in relapsed or refractory CD4+ T lymphocyte tumor.

    Drug: Efficacy of LCAR-T2C CAR-T cells

Interventions

  • DrugEfficacy of LCAR-T2C CAR-T cells

    CD4-directed CAR-T cells administered with lymphodepletion, and to obtain the preliminary efficacy results in subjects who have been diagnosed with relapsed or refractory CD4 positive T lymphocyte tumor

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Dose limiting toxicity (DLT)

    DLT assessed by NCI-CTCAE 5.0

    Time frame: 30 days post infusion

  2. Adverse events

    Incidence and severity of adverse events as assessed by NCI-CTCAE 5.0

    Time frame: 90 days post infusion

  3. Recommended Phase II dose (RP2D)

    RP2D established through ATD+BOIN design and the DLTs occurring following CAR T-cell infusion

    Time frame: 30 days post infusion

  4. Pharmacokinetics

    PK CAR positive T cells in peripheral blood, PK CAR transgene levels in peripheral blood, PK CAR positive T cells in bone marrow and PK CAR transgene levels in bone marrow.

    Time frame: through study completion, 2 years after infusion of the last subject

Secondary outcomes

  1. Anti-drug antibody

    Anti-drug antibody (ADA) will be conducted on blood sample for immune response analyses.

    Time frame: through study completion, 2 years after infusion of the last subject

  2. Overall response rate (ORR) after administration

    Time frame: through study completion, 2 years after infusion of the last subject

  3. Time to Response (TTR) after administration

    Time frame: through study completion, 2 years after infusion of the last subject

  4. Duration of remission (DOR) after administration

    Time frame: through study completion, 2 years after infusion of the last subject

  5. Progress Free Survival (PFS) after administration

    Time frame: through study completion, 2 years after infusion of the last subject

  6. Over Survival (OS) after administration

    Time frame: through study completion, 2 years after infusion of the last subject

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Study locations

3 sites
  • Oncology Department,The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC west district
    Hefei, Anhui 230000, China
  • Hematological Department, People's Hospital of Jiangsu Province
    Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
  • Hematological Department,The First Affiliated Hospital of the Air Force Medical University
    Xi'an, Shanxi 710032, China
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 16, 2022, 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
NCT04219319
Collaborators
Nanjing Legend Biotechnology Co. The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC west district;The First Affiliated Hospital of the Air Force Medical University
Responsible party
WEI XU (Chief Physician of hematology department, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jan 7, 2020
Start date
Dec 15, 2021
Primary completion
Jul 20, 2022
Completion
Jul 20, 2022
Last update
Aug 16, 2022

Study contacts

Wei Xu, PhD& MD
principal investigator · The first Affiliated Hospital Of Nanjing Medical University(JiangSu Province Hospital)
Kaiyang Ding, PhD& MD
principal investigator · Anhui Provincial Cancer Hospital
Guangxun Gao, PhD& MD
principal investigator · The First Affiliated Hospital of the Air Force Medical University

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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