An interventional study of NGS testing in B-All and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI). Recruiting at 8 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 1 Year to 25 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-10.
Sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Not applicable, Interventional, and Diagnostic
Background:
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CART) therapy is a form of immunotherapy which can be used to treat people with relapsed B-ALL. For those who achieve remission after CART alone, it may cure up to 50% of people who receive this therapy. However, for people who relapse after CART, it can be hard to achieve remission again. In patients where CART fails, stem cell transplant (HCT) can be used to prevent relapse and achieve cure. But HCT can cause serious side effects. Better testing is needed to distinguish people who can be cured with CART alone from people who may also need to have HCT.
Objective:
To see if the use of a series of blood and bone marrow tests at regular intervals can help monitor for B-ALL relapse after CART therapy.
Eligibility:
People aged 1 to 25 years with B-ALL who have had CART therapy within the past 42 days. They must never have had a blood stem cell transplant; they must also have no measurable blood cancer cells.
Design:
Participants will visit the clinic every 2 weeks starting 42 days after they receive CART therapy. Each visit will be about the same amount of time as a regular clinic visit. about 8 hours.
Participants will have blood drawn for testing on each visit.
Bone marrow biopsy/aspirate will be done during 4 of the visits at routine timepoints after CART. A needle will be inserted to draw a sample of tissue from inside the bone in the hip.
A small amount of blood and tissue will be tested with ClonoSEQ and to evaluate for normal B-cells side by side with the standard tests.
The combined testing may help determine whether participants are eligible for HCT and/or at risk of relapse after CART.
Participants will be in the study for 2 years.
Background:
Objective:
-To assess efficacy of a novel biomarker-guided risk-based strategy to monitor remission, both by assessing functional CART persistence and incorporating antigen immunophenotype agnostic approach (NGS monitoring) for disease detection, to inform decisions regarding post-CART HCT needed intervention, and to successfully collect biomarker samples at the scheduled times in enrolled HCT naive B-ALL participants receiving CD19 CART.
Eligibility:
Design:
-This single-arm multicenter study will enroll pediatric and young adult participants to evaluate the feasibility, and potential efficacy, of a risk-based, biomarker-driven, consolidation HCT strategy following CD19 CART.
2,584 studies on the registry are indexed under Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma; 473 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 60 is above the median of 40 across 1,952 interventional studies indexed under Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma.
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Confirmed diagnosis of CD19+ B-ALL with an informative NGS clonality sample
--Have an informative NGS clonality sample for MRD assessment based on immunoglobulin rearrangement in bone marrow or blood at any time of active disease between diagnosis and CD19 CART infusion and any time prior to the first on-study intervention confirmed by NGS MRD testing.
Post-CD19 CART infusion disease status:
Study chairs will determine whether other 4-1BB CART are considered comparable.
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
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Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
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.
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Systematic, frequent monitoring intervention to risk stratify pts for risk of relapse postCART
Diagnostic Test: NGS testing
antigen immunophenotype agnostic approach for disease detection using blood and bone marrow samples
Efficacy of novel biomarker-guided risk based strategy to monitor remission
NGS MRD testing of blood and bone marrow samples and evaluation of BCA
Time frame: baseline to 1 year post CD19 CART infusion
Time to relapse
Defined as time from CART cell infusion to relapse
Time frame: baseline to 1 year post CD19 CART infusion
Time to HCT
Defined as time from CART cell infusion to receiving HCT
Time frame: baseline to 1 year post CD19 CART infusion
Leukemia Free Survival
Defined as time from CART cell infusion to first occurrence of relapse or death
Time frame: baseline to 1 year post CD19 CART infusion
Overall survival
Defined as time from CART cell infusion to death
Time frame: baseline to 1 year post CD19 CART infusion
Plan to share: Yes — All IPD recorded in the medical record will be shared with intramural investigators upon request. In addition, all large scale genomic sequencing will be shared with subscribers to dbGaP.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan, Informed consent form
Time frame: Clinical data will be made available within 10 years after completion of the primary endpoint. Genomic data are available once genomic data are uploaded per protocol GDS plan for as long as database is active.
Access criteria: Clinical data will be made available upon request and with the permission of the study PI. Genomic data are made available via dbGaP through requests to the data custodians.
Start is estimated for Nov 2026; primary completion for Dec 2026, 1 month later.
Of 207 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, half reached primary completion within 33 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 66. This study's planned 1 month is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 214 studies reached it within 32 months; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 66.
Start moved 32 times since we started tracking on Sep 25, 2026: Sep 2026 → Nov 2026, last on Nov 10, 2026.
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