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RecruitingNCT05489887Updated Aug 12, 2026

Naxitamab Added to Induction for Newly Diagnosed High-Risk Neuroblastoma

A Phase 2 interventional study of Naxitamab in Neuroblastoma, sponsored by Giselle Sholler. Recruiting at 26 sites in 4 countries. Open to participants aged 12 Months to 21 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-12.

Sponsored by Giselle Sholler · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Sep 2022; still recruiting 4 years 1 month later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
93
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
12 Months to 21 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a prospective, multicenter clinical trial in subjects with newly diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma to evaluate the efficacy and safety of administering naxitamab with standard induction therapy. The initial chemotherapy will include 5 cycles of multi-agent chemotherapy. Naxitamab will be added to all 5 Induction cycles. We hypothesize that the addition of anti-GD2 therapy to induction chemotherapy will result in improved end of induction responses and improved survival.

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This is a prospective, multicenter clinical trial in subjects with newly diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma to evaluate the efficacy and safety of administering naxitamab with standard induction therapy.

All subjects will be followed for disease response, event free survival, overall survival and toxicity. Extent of disease will be measured and assessed for changes throughout the course of the study. All efficacy analyses will be performed on the evaluable population which will consist of all enrolled subjects (subjects who initiate treatment with naxitamab in combination with GM-CSF plus standard induction therapy) and who have measurable disease at baseline.

The initial chemotherapy Induction regimen will utilize sequential administration of 5 cycles of multi-agent chemotherapy. Naxitamab will be added to all 5 Induction cycles.

Stem cell mobilization and collection will occur after the 2nd cycle of induction.

Surgical resection of the primary tumor will ideally occur after the 4th cycle of Induction but may be delayed until after the 5th cycle of Induction if medically necessary.

Disease status evaluations will occur at the following time points: (1) pre-treatment, (2) post Cycle 2 Induction (3) Prior to surgical resection (if performed), (4) End of Induction (which includes surgery and 5 cycles of chemotherapy), and (5) End of Additional/Salvage Therapy as needed.

The current standard of care for high-risk neuroblastoma involves 5-7 cycles of induction chemotherapy with surgical removal of the tumor after 4-5 cycles of chemotherapy, followed by high-dose chemotherapy plus autologous stem cell transplant, then radiation to the primary tumor bed, followed by anti-GD2 immunotherapy and cis retinoic acid. This results in a less than 60% disease free survival for high-risk NB, a survival rate that still greatly needs improvement. Two areas in which improvements can be made include: 1) to improve response rate to induction chemotherapy and 2) to improve EFS by improving maintenance therapy to prevent relapse.

We hypothesize that the addition of anti-GD2 therapy to induction chemotherapy will result in improved end of induction responses and improved survival.

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Conditions studied

  • Neuroblastoma

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Keywords

  • naxitimab
  • induction
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In context

Neuroblastoma

675 studies on the registry are indexed under Neuroblastoma; 127 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 93 is above the median of 32 across 507 interventional studies indexed under Neuroblastoma.

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Lead sponsor

Giselle Sholler is the lead sponsor of 22 studies on the registry; 6 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
12 Months to 21 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Diagnosis: Subjects must have a diagnosis of neuroblastoma or ganglioneuroblastoma (nodular or intermixed) verified by histology or demonstration of clumps of tumor cells in bone marrow with elevated urinary catecholamine metabolites. Subjects with the following disease stages at diagnosis are eligible, if they meet the other specified criteria:
  2. Subjects with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma with INRGSS Stage M disease with either of the following features:

    1. MYCN amplification (> 4-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals), regardless of additional biologic features; OR
    2. 365 days to ≥ 547 days of age without MYCN amplification, but unfavorable biologic features such as unfavorable histology (INPC) or diploid tumor (DNA index=1) or the presence of any segmental chromosome aberration (SCA) (somatic copy number loss at 1p, 3p, 4p, or 11q or somatic copy number gain at 1q, 2p, or 17q); OR
    3. Age > 547 days of age regardless of biologic features

    Subjects with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma with INRGSS Stage MS disease with either of the following:

    1. MYCN amplification (> 4-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals); OR
    2. 365 days to ≥ 547 days (18 months) of age without MYCN amplification, but unfavorable biologic features such as unfavorable histology (INPC) or diploid tumor (DNA index=1) or SCA as above

    Subjects with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma INRGSS Stage L2 disease with either of the following:

    1. MYCN amplification (> 4-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals); OR
    2. 18 months to \<5 years of age without MYCN amplification, but with unfavorable histology (INPC); OR
    3. ≥5 years of age without MYCN amplification, but with undifferentiated or poorly differentiated INPC Subjects with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma INRGSS Stage L1 disease that is incompletely resected with MYCN amplification.

    Subjects > 547 days of age initially diagnosed with INRGSS Stage L1, L2 or MS disease who progressed to Stage M without prior chemotherapy may enroll within 4 weeks of progression to Stage M.

    Subjects ≥ 365 days of age initially diagnosed with MYCN amplified INRGSS Stage L1 disease who progress to Stage M without systemic therapy may enroll within 4 weeks of progression to Stage M.

  3. Subjects must be age ≤ 21 years at initial diagnosis.
  4. Subjects must be >12 months of age at enrollment.
  5. Adequate cardiac function defined as:

    1. Shortening fraction of ≥ 27% by echocardiogram, or
    2. of ≥ 50% by radionuclide evaluation or echocardiogram.
  6. Adequate liver function must be demonstrated, defined as:

    1. Total ≤ 1.5 x (ULN) for age AND
    2. (SGPT) \< 5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age
  7. 1. Subjects must have adequate renal function defined as:

    • For subjects \< 17 years old: estimated (eGFR) as calculated from the Bedside Schwartz equation (in units of mL/min/1.73 m2) or via radioisotope GFR of ≥ 70 mL/min/1.73 m2. The Bedside Schwartz equation is: [(0.413) X (Height in cm)] / SCr
    • For subjects ≥17 years old: estimated Glomerular Filtration rate (eGFR) as calculated from the Cockcroft and Gault formula (in units of mL/min/1.73 m2) or via radioisotope GFR of ≥ 70 mL/min/1.73 m2. The Cockcroft and Gault formula is: [(140-age) x (Wt in kg) x (0.85 if female)] / (72 x SCr)
    • OR a 24 hour urine ≥ 70 mL/min/1.73 m2
  8. A negative serum pregnancy test is required for subjects of (≥13 years of age or after onset of menses)
  9. Both male and female post-pubertal study subjects must be willing to use a highly effective method (i.e., achieves a failure rate of \<1% per year when used consistently and correctly) from the time of (and assent, as applicable) until 6 months after study treatment discontinuation. Such methods include: combined (estrogen and progestogen containing) hormonal contraception associated with inhibition of ovulation (oral, intravaginal, transdermal), progestogen-only hormonal contraception associated with inhibition of ovulation (oral, injectable, implantable), intrauterine device (IUD), intrauterine hormone-releasing system (IUS), bilateral tubal occlusion, vasectomized partner, sexual abstinence.
  10. Informed Consent: All subjects and/or legal guardians must sign informed written consent. Assent, when appropriate, will be obtained according to institutional guidelines and applicable local regulations.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Subjects who are less than 1 year of age
  2. Subjects who are 12-18 months of age with INRGSS Stage M and all stage L2 subjects with favorable biologic features (i.e., nonamplified MYCN, favorable pathology, and DNA index > 1) are not eligible.
  3. Subjects who have had prior systemic therapy except for localized emergency radiation to sites of life-threatening or function-threatening disease and/or no more than 1 cycle of chemotherapy.
  4. Treatment with treatment (topical, inhaled and short-term emergency excluded) within 4 weeks prior to enrollment
  5. Inadequate pulmonary function defined as evidence of dyspnea at rest, exercise intolerance, and/or chronic oxygen requirement. In addition, room air pulse oximetry \< 94% and/or abnormal pulmonary function tests if these assessments are clinically indicated.
  6. Pregnant or breastfeeding (NOTE: breast milk cannot be stored for future use while the mother is being treated on study.)
  7. Subjects receiving any drug concurrently.
  8. Subjects with any other medical condition, including but not limited to malabsorption syndromes, mental illness or substance abuse, deemed by the Investigator to be likely to interfere with the interpretation of the results or which would interfere with a subject's ability to sign or the legal guardian's ability to sign the , and subject's ability to cooperate and participate in the study
  9. Subjects with a significant intercurrent illness (any ongoing serious medical problem unrelated to cancer or its treatment) that is not covered by the detailed exclusion criteria and that is expected to interfere with the action of investigational medicinal products (IMPs) or to significantly increase the severity of the toxicities experienced from trial treatment.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

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Informed consent

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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.

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.

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Corticosteroids (steroids)

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

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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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
93 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    HRNB Newly diagnosed subjects

    5 cycles of standard of care induction + naxitimab Naxitimab on Days 1, 3, and 5 of each cycle

    Drug: Naxitamab

Interventions

  • Naxitamab is a humanized (IgG1) anti-GD2 (hu3F8) monoclonal antibody for the treatment of neuroblastoma, osteosarcoma and other GD2-positive cancers. Naxitamab was granted accelerated approval by the FDA in 2020 as treatment (in combination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor - GM-CSF) for pediatric patients at least one year of age and adult patients with relapsed or refractory high-risk neuroblastoma in the bone or bone marrow demonstrating a partial response, minor response, or stable disease to prior therapy

    Also known as: Danyelza

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of participants with Complete Response (CR) rate per 1993 INRC guidelines

    Measured by the presence of radiologically assessable disease by cross-sectional computed tomography (CT) or Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) imaging and/or by metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) or positron emission tomography (PET) scans and bone marrow (BM) response for subjects with newly-diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma according to the 1993 International Neuroblastoma Response Criteria (INRC) and compare to relevant historical controls.

    Time frame: 6 to 12 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of participants with CR + Very Good Partial Response (VGPR) rate and objective response rate (ORR; CR + VGPR + PR)

    Evaluate the combined CR + Very Good Partial Response (VGPR) rate and objective response rate (ORR; CR + VGPR + PR) at EOI per 1993 INRC, compared against historical controls and external controls. Measured by the presence of radiologically assessable disease by cross-sectional computed tomography (CT) or Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) imaging and/or by metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) or positron emission tomography (PET) scans and bone marrow (BM) response for subjects with newly-diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma according to the 1993 International Neuroblastoma Response Criteria (INRC).

    Time frame: 6 to 12 months

  2. Number of participants with Complete Response (CR) rate per 2017 INRC guidelines

    Evaluate CR rate and ORR (CR + PR) at EOI per the 2017 INRC, compared against external controls. Measured by the presence of radiologically assessable disease by cross-sectional computed tomography (CT) or Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) imaging and/or by metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) or positron emission tomography (PET) scans and bone marrow (BM) response for subjects with newly-diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma according to the 2017 International Neuroblastoma Response Criteria (INRC).

    Time frame: 6 to 12 months

  3. Number of days that subjects remain alive

    Overall survival (OS) for subjects receiving the combination of standard Induction chemotherapy with naxitamab.

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year, plus 8 years of follow up

  4. Number of days that subjects remain in remission

    Progression-free survival (PFS) for subjects receiving the combination of standard Induction chemotherapy with naxitamab.

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year, plus 8 years of follow up

  5. Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events

    Time frame: At last dose of Naxitamab, average of 6-12 months, plus 42 additional days

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Study locations

25 of 26 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 12, 2026, 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
NCT05489887
Lead sponsor
Giselle Sholler
Collaborators
Y-mAbs Therapeutics
Responsible party
Giselle Sholler (Beat Childhood Cancer Chair, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Aug 5, 2022
Start date
Sep 14, 2022
Primary completion
Sep 2029 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 2036 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 12, 2026

Study contacts

BCC Enroll
Contact
BCCEnroll@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
7175310003
Jaqueline Kraveka, DO
study chair · Medical University of South Carolina

Oversight

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