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Status unknownNCT05784870Updated Aug 25, 2023

A Study of Shengxuening Tablet in the Treatment of Chemotherapy-related Anemia in Hematologic Tumors

A Phase 3 interventional study of Shengxuening Tablet and Ferrous succinate in Hematological Malignancy and Cancer-Related Anemia, sponsored by Zhongnan Hospital. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-08-25.

Sponsored by Zhongnan Hospital · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

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Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
168
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Cancer-related anemia (CRA) is one of the common accompanying diseases of malignant tumors. In 2019, a cross-sectional survey on the anemia status of 7324 malignant tumor patients in 97 hospitals in China found that the incidence of CRA was about 49.24%. 92.84% of the patients have not been given enough attention and effective treatment. According to the European Oncological Anemia Survey, CRA has the highest incidence in leukemia patients, followed by lymphoma/myeloma. CRA not only leads to a decline in the quality of life of patients, but also reduces the sensitivity to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and also causes hypoxia in tumor tissue, which affects the prognosis of patients as an independent factor. At present, the treatment of CRA mainly includes blood transfusion therapy, erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) therapy, iron supplementation, etc. Conventional oral iron has low bioavailability and strong gastrointestinal irritation. Although intravenous iron can quickly replenish iron, excessive iron supplementation is prone to iron overload. Less acceptable. Shengxuening Tablets are derived from silkworm excrement. The main components of iron chlorophyllin and chlorophyll derivatives are very similar in structure to heme, and can be directly absorbed by small intestinal mucosal cells, effectively supplementing the iron elements required in the process of hematopoiesis. The investigators found that Shengxuening Tablets can increase the number of peripheral blood cells in mouse models of myelosuppression, improve bone marrow morphology, reverse the decrease in body weight and spleen index, and increase the levels of serum erythropoietin and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor . Real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR and Western blot analysis showed increased expression levels of stem cell factor (SCF), JAK2 and STAT3 in the liver. These results indicated that Shengxuening Tablets promoted the recovery of hematopoietic function in myelosuppressive models by increasing the secretion of hematopoietic factors and activating the JAK2/STAT3 pathway. Therefore, in order to further confirm the preventive effect, effectiveness and safety of Shengxuening Tablets in the treatment of anemia in patients with hematological tumors complicated with anemia, this clinical trial was designed.

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Conditions studied

  • Hematological Malignancy
  • Cancer-Related Anemia

Keywords

  • Shengxuening tablet
  • chemotherapy-related Anemia
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In context

Hematologic Neoplasms

1,494 studies on the registry are indexed under Hematologic Neoplasms; 438 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 168 is above the median of 45 across 1,090 interventional studies indexed under Hematologic Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Zhongnan Hospital is the lead sponsor of 105 studies on the registry; 48 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  • Age>18 years old, gender is not limited;
  • Patients diagnosed with blood cancer complicated with anemia;
  • During the screening period of ≤1 week, hemoglobin (Hb): 60g/L\<Hb≤100g/L;
  • Willingness to treat

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • During the screening period of ≤1 week, hemoglobin (Hb)≤60g/L
  • History of blood transfusion within 1 month;
  • Urgent blood transfusion or EPO infusion is required within the screening period of ≤1 week;
  • Folic acid or vitamin B12 deficiency;
  • History of iron allergy, history of allergy or intolerance to the study drug;
  • Pregnant and lactating women;
  • Age \<18 years old and body weight ≤35kg;
  • Participated in other clinical drug research in the past 3 months;
  • Severe cardiac insufficiency (NYHA grade III or above);
  • Severe abnormal liver function (ALT, AST and TBIL ≥ 2 times the upper limit of normal value);
  • Severe renal insufficiency (creatinine clearance ≤ 15ml/min);
  • Severe mental disorder;
  • Acute and chronic blood loss;
  • Combined with a second tumor;
  • Ferritin>500μg/L;
  • Combined with active tuberculosis;
  • Failure to cooperate with treatment according to doctor's advice.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
168 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Shengxuening Tablets

    Oral treatment with Shengxuening Tablets 1 week before chemotherapy, usage: 0.5gtid, for 28 consecutive days

    Drug: Shengxuening Tablet

  • Active comparator
    ferrous succinate

    Oral treatment with ferrous succinate 1 week before chemotherapy, usage: 200mgqd, for 28 consecutive days

    Drug: Ferrous succinate

Interventions

  • DrugShengxuening Tablet

    Oral treatment with Shengxuening Tablets 1 week before chemotherapy, usage: 0.5gtid, for 28 consecutive days

  • Oral treatment with ferrous succinate 1 week before chemotherapy, usage: 200mgqd, for 28 consecutive days

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change from Blood routine in plasma at Week 4

    Hemoglobin in g/L

    Time frame: Day 0,Week 1,Week2,Week 3,Week 4

  2. Change from Blood routine in plasma at Week 4

    Red Blood Cell in 10\^12/L

    Time frame: Day 0,Week 1,Week2,Week 3,Week 4

  3. Change from Blood routine in plasma at Week 4

    mean corpuscular hemoglobin in pg

    Time frame: Day 0,Week 1,Week2,Week 3,Week 4

  4. Change from Blood routine in plasma at Week 4

    mean corpuscular volume in fL

    Time frame: Day 0,Week 1,Week2,Week 3,Week 4

  5. Change from Blood routine in plasma at Week 4

    Red blood cell specific volume in percentage

    Time frame: Day 0,Week 1,Week2,Week 3,Week 4

  6. Change from Blood routine in plasma at Week 4

    Reticulocyte in 10\^9/L

    Time frame: Day 0,Week 1,Week2,Week 3,Week 4

  7. Change from Blood routine in plasma at Week 4

    Serum erythropoietin in ng/ml

    Time frame: Day 0,Week 1,Week2,Week 3,Week 4

Secondary outcomes

  1. Changes from iron metabolism indicators in plasma at week 4

    serum ferritin in μg/L

    Time frame: Day 0,Week 1,Week2,Week 3,Week 4

  2. Changes from iron metabolism indicators in plasma at week 4

    serum iron in μmol/L

    Time frame: Day 0,Week 1,Week2,Week 3,Week 4

  3. Changes from iron metabolism indicators in plasma at week 4

    total iron binding capacity in μmol/L

    Time frame: Day 0,Week 1,Week2,Week 3,Week 4

  4. Changes from iron metabolism indicators in plasma at week 4

    unsaturated iron binding capacity in μmol/L

    Time frame: Day 0,Week 1,Week2,Week 3,Week 4

  5. Changes from iron metabolism indicators in plasma at week 4

    transferrin saturation in percentage

    Time frame: Day 0,Week 1,Week2,Week 3,Week 4

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University
    Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 25, 2023, 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
NCT05784870
Lead sponsor
Zhongnan Hospital
Responsible party
Fuling Zhou (Head,Division of Hematology; Professor of Hematology; Doctoral advisor, Zhongnan Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 27, 2023
Start date
Feb 7, 2023
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2024 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2024 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 25, 2023

Study contacts

Zhou Fuling
Contact
zhoufuling@163.com.cn
18986265580

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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