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A Multicenter Study to Evaluate Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Testing and Monitoring of B-Cell Recovery to Guide Management Following Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CART) Induced Remission in Children and Young Adults With B Lineage Acute Lymph...

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

Updated Nov 10, 2026Start date movedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
60
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
1 Year to 25 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

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.

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Background:

  • Given the dismal outcomes for patients who experience a relapse following CD19 CART and the potential for using Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) for post-CART remission consolidation for relapse prevention, there is a clear opportunity to improve outcomes for patients with B-ALL who proceed to CART. With a goal of improving overall survival, it remains critically important to be able to predict which patients are at high risk of relapse in whom an HCT would be indicated for remission consolidation. Distinguishing this high-risk cohort from low-risk patients who are able to maintain durable remission following CART and in whom HCT-associated toxicities could be avoided is equally important.
  • Thus, in the context of this biomarker-based study, we propose a systematic approach utilizing the best-known biomarkers for remission monitoring which assess both functional CART persistence and incorporates antigen immunophenotype agnostic approach for disease detection will improve LFS post CD19 CART.

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:

  • Age >=1 year and \<= 25 years old at the time of CD19 CART infusion
  • Diagnosis of CD19+ B-ALL in a bone marrow morphologic complete remission and are flow cytometry measurable residual disease (MRD) negative within 42 days post CD19 CART infusion.
  • Must have an allogeneic HCT donor identified for potential HCT
  • B-cell aplasia post CD19 CART persisting until the time of the first on-study intervention

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.

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Conditions studied

  • B-All
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Keywords

  • B-All
  • Car-Cure
  • Result Monitoring
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In context

Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma

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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Lead sponsor

National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the lead sponsor of 3,556 studies on the registry; 336 are open to participants now.

Of its 411 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 373 (91%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
1 Year to 25 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Age >=1 year and \<= 25 years old at the time of CD19 CART infusion
  • 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:

    • Are in bone marrow morphologic complete remission and are flow cytometry measurable residual disease (MRD) negative within 42 days post CD19 CART infusion.
    • Are NGS MRD negative by tracking sample in the bone marrow within 42 days post CD19 CART infusion confirmed by NGS MRD testing.
  • Received first CD19 (4-1BB) CART within 42 days prior to enrollment. Note: Eligible CART including FDA approved Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) infused on a treatment plan, research study, or other comparable 4-1BB based constructs.

Study chairs will determine whether other 4-1BB CART are considered comparable.

  • All participants must have an HCT donor identified for potential HCT. Note: Donor identification and selection will be according to institutional practice.
  • Have B-cell aplasia (BCA) post CD19 CART persisting within 42 days post CD19 CART infusion. Note: BCA persisting is defined as \<1% B cells lymphocytes or \<50 B cells/microliter in the peripheral blood
  • Performance of all screening tests prior to day 42 post CD19 CART.
  • The ability of participant or parent/guardian to understand and the willingness to sign a written consent document or participants unable to consent if they are represented by a Legally Authorized Representative (LAR).

Exclusion criteria

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

  • Prior hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT)
  • Recent history of the extramedullary disease (EMD) that requires ongoing radiographic surveillance (e.g., participants with active EMD at CD19 CART infusion that requires monitoring by imaging without the ability to more precisely assess disease status will be ineligible). A remote history of EMD does not exclude the participant.
  • Active and/or residual central nervous system (CNS) disease that requires ongoing therapy or monitoring.
  • Co-morbidities precluding myeloablative HCT. Note: Determination of co-morbidities precluding myeloablative HCT will be made by the treating transplant (HCT) physician and documented in the research record. This does not require that the participant is immediately fully eligible for HCT, only that there are no long-term comorbidities that would preclude a myeloablative approach (e.g., renal failure, severe cardiac failure, long-term oxygen requirement).
  • Uncontrolled, symptomatic, intercurrent illness or social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements. Note: Determination of uncontrolled, symptomatic illness or social situation that would limit compliance with the study requirements will be made by the site-PI and documented in the research record.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

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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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Diagnostic
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
60 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    1/Intervention

    Systematic, frequent monitoring intervention to risk stratify pts for risk of relapse postCART

    Diagnostic Test: NGS testing

Interventions

  • Diagnostic testNGS testing

    antigen immunophenotype agnostic approach for disease detection using blood and bone marrow samples

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. 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

Secondary outcomes

  1. Time to relapse

    Defined as time from CART cell infusion to relapse

    Time frame: baseline to 1 year post CD19 CART infusion

  2. Time to HCT

    Defined as time from CART cell infusion to receiving HCT

    Time frame: baseline to 1 year post CD19 CART infusion

  3. 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

  4. Overall survival

    Defined as time from CART cell infusion to death

    Time frame: baseline to 1 year post CD19 CART infusion

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Study locations

8 of 8 sites recruiting
  • Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
    Los Angeles, California 90027, United States
    Recruiting
  • Children's National Medical Center
    Washington D.C., District of Columbia 20010, United States
    Recruiting
  • Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
    Atlanta, Georgia 30329, United States
    Recruiting
  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
    Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
    Recruiting
    • For more information at the NIH Clinical Center contact National Cancer Institute Referral Office · Contact888-624-1937
  • Dana-Farber/Boston Children s Hospital
    Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
    Recruiting
  • Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
    Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
    Recruiting
  • Seattle Children's, University of Washington
    Seattle, Washington 98105, United States
    Recruiting
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    Seattle, Washington 98109, United States
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

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.

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Timeline

32 registry updates since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedDate before it movedWhere the date was before it movedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

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.

Earlier changes are on the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Nov 16, 2022
First posted
Nov 18, 2022
StartEst.
Nov 15, 2026was Sep 2026
Primary completionEst.
Dec 31, 2026
CompletionEst.
Dec 31, 2027
Last update
Nov 10, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
Start date
Sep 29, 2026→Nov 15, 2026
moved 32 times, Sep 25, 2026 – Nov 10, 2026
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  1. Nov 10, 2026
    Start date Nov 12, 2026→Nov 15, 2026
  2. Nov 9, 2026
    Start date Nov 11, 2026→Nov 12, 2026
  3. Nov 6, 2026
    Start date Nov 10, 2026→Nov 11, 2026
  4. Nov 5, 2026
    Start date Nov 9, 2026→Nov 10, 2026
  5. Nov 4, 2026
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  6. Nov 3, 2026
    Start date Nov 5, 2026→Nov 8, 2026
  7. Nov 2, 2026
    Start date Nov 4, 2026→Nov 5, 2026
  8. Oct 30, 2026
    Start date Nov 3, 2026→Nov 4, 2026
    + 1 other change: verification date
  9. Oct 29, 2026
    Start date Nov 2, 2026→Nov 3, 2026
    + 1 other change: verification date
  10. Oct 28, 2026
    Start date Nov 1, 2026→Nov 2, 2026
  11. Oct 27, 2026
    Start date Oct 29, 2026→Nov 1, 2026
  12. Oct 26, 2026
    Start date Oct 28, 2026→Oct 29, 2026
    + 1 other change: verification date
  13. Oct 23, 2026
    Start date Oct 27, 2026→Oct 28, 2026
  14. Oct 22, 2026
    Start date Oct 26, 2026→Oct 27, 2026
  15. Oct 21, 2026
    Start date Oct 25, 2026→Oct 26, 2026
  16. Oct 20, 2026
    Start date Oct 22, 2026→Oct 25, 2026
  17. Oct 19, 2026
    Start date Oct 21, 2026→Oct 22, 2026
  18. Oct 16, 2026
    Start date Oct 20, 2026→Oct 21, 2026
  19. Oct 15, 2026
    Start date Oct 19, 2026→Oct 20, 2026
  20. Oct 14, 2026
    Start date Oct 18, 2026→Oct 19, 2026
  21. Oct 13, 2026
    Start date Oct 14, 2026→Oct 18, 2026
  22. Oct 9, 2026
    Start date Oct 13, 2026→Oct 14, 2026
  23. Oct 8, 2026
    Start date Oct 12, 2026→Oct 13, 2026
  24. Oct 7, 2026
    Start date Oct 11, 2026→Oct 12, 2026
  25. Oct 6, 2026
    Start date Oct 8, 2026→Oct 11, 2026
  26. Oct 5, 2026
    Start date Oct 7, 2026→Oct 8, 2026
  27. Oct 2, 2026
    Start date Oct 6, 2026→Oct 7, 2026
  28. Oct 1, 2026
    Start date Oct 5, 2026→Oct 6, 2026
  29. Sep 30, 2026
    Start date Oct 4, 2026→Oct 5, 2026
  30. Sep 29, 2026
    Start date Oct 1, 2026→Oct 4, 2026
  31. Sep 28, 2026
    Start date Sep 30, 2026→Oct 1, 2026
  32. Sep 25, 2026
    Start date Sep 29, 2026→Sep 30, 2026

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05621291
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 18, 2022
Start date
Nov 15, 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 10, 2026

Study contacts

NCI Ped LeukemiaLymph Cell Tx Tm
Contact
ncilltct@mail.nih.gov
(240) 760-6970
Alexandra Dreyzin, M.D.
Contact
alexandra.dreyzin@nih.gov
(301) 451-4801
Alexandra Dreyzin, M.D.
principal investigator · National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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