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Active, not recruitingNCT05144243Updated Aug 12, 2025

Study to Assess Adverse Events and Change in Disease State of Oral Venetoclax in Combination With Subcutaneous (SC) Azacitidine in Newly Diagnosed Adult Participants With Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Who Are Ineligible for Intensive Chemotherapy in China

A Phase 4 interventional study of Venetoclax and Azacitidine in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), sponsored by AbbVie. Active, not recruiting at 18 sites in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-08-12.

Sponsored by AbbVie · Phase 4, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Mar 2026, 7 months ago, but the record still lists the study as active, not recruiting.
Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
44
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is one of the most aggressive blood cancers, with a very low survival rate and few options for participants who are unable to undergo intensive chemotherapy, the current standard of care. This study is to evaluate how safe the combination of azacitidine and venetoclax is and how effective the combination of azacitidine and venetoclax is in adult participants with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), in China. Adverse events and change in disease state will be assessed.

The combination of azacitidine and venetoclax is being evaluated in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Participants will receive azacitidine with increasing doses of venetoclax. Adult participants with a diagnosis of AML will be enrolled. Around 40 participants will be enrolled in the study in approximately 30 sites in China.

At cycle 1 during ramp-up period, participants will receive venetoclax oral tablets once daily in increasing doses until the study dose is achieved on day 3. Then ventoclax oral tablets will continue once daily thereafter. Azacitidine will be given by subcutaneous injection (SC) for 7 days beginning on Day 1 of each 28-day cycle.

There may be higher treatment burden for participants in this trial compared to their standard of care. Participants will attend regular visits during the study at a hospital or clinic. The effect of the treatment will be checked by medical assessments, blood tests, and checking for side effects.

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Conditions studied

  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

Keywords

  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia
  • AML
  • Venetoclax
  • Venclexta
  • Azacitidine
  • Treatment Naïve AML
  • Untreated AML
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In context

Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute

2,971 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; 745 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 44 is close to the median of 41 across 2,509 interventional studies indexed under Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute.

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Lead sponsor

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Who can participate

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Confirmation of Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) diagnosis by World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, have a projected life expectancy of at least 12 weeks, previously untreated, and ineligible for treatment with intensive chemotherapy.
  • Participant must be considered ineligible for induction therapy defined by the following:

    • >= 75 years of age
    • >=18 to 74 years of age with at least one of the following comorbidities:

      • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 2 or 3.
      • Cardiac history of congestive heart failure requiring treatment or ejection fraction \<= 50% or chronic stable angina.
      • Diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) \<= 65% or forced expiratory volume during the first second (FEV1) \<= 65%.
      • Creatinine clearance >= 30 mL/min to \< 45 mL/min.
      • Moderate hepatic impairment with total bilirubin > 1.5 to \<= 3.0 × upper limit of normal (ULN).
      • Any other comorbidity that the physician judges to be incompatible with intensive chemotherapy.
  • Must meet the laboratory requirements per the protocol.
  • Must have an ECOG performance status of:

    • 0 to 2 for subject ≥ 75 year of age; or
    • 0 to 3 for subject ≥ 18 to 74 years of age.
  • Female participant must not be pregnant or breastfeeding and is not considering becoming pregnant or donating eggs during the study or for approximately six months after the last dose of study drug.
  • Female participants of childbearing potential must agree to use at least 1 protocol-specified method of birth control and male participants, if sexually active with female partner(s) of childbearing potential, must agree to practice the protocol-specified contraception.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • History of any malignancies within 2 years prior to study entry with exception noted in the protocol.
  • Have received any investigational drug 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug.
  • Have received strong and/or moderate CYP3A inducers within 7 days prior to initiation of study treatment.
  • Must not have received treatment with the following:

    • An hypomethylating agent (HMA), venetoclax, and/or any chemotherapeutic agent for myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).
    • Prior therapy or experimental therapies for MDS or Acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
  • Current participation in another research or observational study.
  • Myeloproliferative neoplasm including myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia vera, chronic myeloid leukemia with or without BCR-ABL1 translocation, and AML with BCR-ABL1 translocation.
  • Participant has acute promyelocytic leukemia.
  • Participant has known active central nervous system (CNS) involvement with AML.
  • Participant has a history of malabsorption syndrome or other condition that precludes enteral route of administration.
  • Participant has known HIV infection (due to potential drug-drug interactions between antiretroviral medications and venetoclax). HIV testing will be performed at Screening, only if required per local guidelines or institutional standards.
  • Active hepatitis B virus (HBV) and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV) with high viral titers. Participants with HBV inactive carrier status and/or HCV with low viral titers on antivirals (non-exclusionary medications) are eligible.
  • Participant has consumed grapefruit, grapefruit products, Seville oranges (including marmalade containing Seville oranges) or Starfruit within 3 days prior to the initiation of study treatment.
  • Participant has chronic respiratory disease that requires continuous oxygen, or significant history of renal, neurologic, psychiatric, endocrinologic, metabolic, immunologic, hepatic, cardiovascular disease, or any other medical condition or known hypersensitivity to any of the study medications including excipients of azacitidine that in the opinion of the investigator would adversely affect his/her participating in this study.
  • Participant exhibits evidence of other clinically significant uncontrolled systemic infection requiring therapy (viral, bacterial or fungal).
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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Venetoclax in Combination with Azacitidine

    Participants will receive oral tablet venetoclax dose ramp-up only in Cycle 1 Days 1-3 until target dose is reached. Particpants will then receive oral tablet venetoclax at the target dose every day (QD) on Cycle Days 1 - 28 plus Azacitidine through subcutaneous injection (SC) QD on Cycle Days 1 - 7 (28-day cycle).

    Drug: Venetoclax · Drug: Azacitidine

Interventions

  • DrugVenetoclax

    Tablet: Oral

    Also known as: ABT-199, GDC-0199, Venclexta

  • DrugAzacitidine

    Subcutaneous Injection (SC)

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of Participants With Treatment-emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs)

    An adverse event (AE) is defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical investigation participant administered a pharmaceutical product which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment. Treatment-emergent events (TEAEs) are defined as any event that began or worsened in severity after the first dose of study drug. The investigator assesses the relationship of each event to the use of study.

    Time frame: Up to Approximately 19 Months

  2. Number of Laboratory Abnormalities from Clinical Laboratory Values (Hematology and Chemistry)

    Number of Laboratory abnormalities from clinical laboratory values (hematology and chemistry).

    Time frame: Up to Approximately 19 Months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Percentage of Participants with Composite Complete Remission (CR [Complete Remission] + CRi [Complete Remission with Incomplete Blood Count Recovery]) Based on the Modified International Working Group (IWG) Criteria for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

    CR + CRi is defined as achieving a CR or CRi at any time point during the study prior to the start of post-treatment anti-AML therapies per the modified IWG criteria for AML. CR is defined as absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \> 10\^3/μL, platelets \> 10\^5/μL, red cell transfusion independence, and bone marrow with \< 5% blasts. Absence of circulating blasts and blasts with Auer rods; absence of extramedullary disease. CRi is defined as all of the criteria for CR except for residual neutropenia \<= 10\^3/μL (1000/μL) or thrombocytopenia \<= 10\^5/μL (100,000/μL). Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion dependence is also defined as CRi.

    Time frame: Up to Approximately 19 Months

  2. Percentage of Participants with CR based on the modified IWG criteria for AML

    CR is defined as absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \> 10\^3/μL, platelets \> 10\^5/μL, red cell transfusion independence, and bone marrow with \< 5% blasts. Absence of circulating blasts and blasts with Auer rods; absence of extramedullary disease.

    Time frame: Up to Approximately 19 Months

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Study locations

18 sites
  • Peking Union Medical College Hospital (East) - Dongdan Campus /ID# 233179
    Beijing, Beijing Municipality 100730, China
  • Peking University International Hospital /ID# 232254
    Beijing, Beijing Municipality 102206, China
  • Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center /ID# 231793
    Guangzhou, Guangdong 510060, China
  • Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University /ID# 231792
    Guangzhou, Guangdong 510280, China
  • Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital /ID# 232059
    Guangzhou, Guangdong 510310, China
  • Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University /ID# 231938
    Guangzhou, Guangdong 510515, China
  • Shenzhen Second People's Hospital /ID# 231444
    Shenzhen, Guangdong 518039, China
  • People's Hospital of Henan Province /ID# 232568
    Zhengzhou, Henan 450003, China
  • Henan Cancer Hospital /ID# 231940
    Zhengzhou, Henan 450008, China
  • Union Hospital Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technol /ID# 233178
    Wuhan, Hubei 430022, China
  • Xiangyang Central Hospital /ID# 232452
    Xiangyang, Hubei 441106, China
  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University /ID# 232418
    Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China
  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University /ID# 231442
    Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, China
  • Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital /ID# 232419
    Xining, Qinghai 810001, China
  • The Second People's Hospital of Yibin /ID# 233180
    Yibin, Sichuan 644099, China
  • Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sc /ID# 232253
    Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality 300020, China
  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University /ID# 233704
    Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China
  • Duplicate_The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University /ID# 232465
    Guiyang, 550002, China
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — AbbVie is committed to responsible clinical trial data sharing. This includes access to anonymized, individual and trial-level data (analysis data sets), as well as other information.

Supporting information: Study protocol, Sap, Csr

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 12, 2025, 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
NCT05144243
Lead sponsor
AbbVie
Collaborators
Genentech, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 3, 2021
Start date
Jan 6, 2022
Primary completion
Mar 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 12, 2025

Study contacts

ABBVIE INC.
study director · AbbVie

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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