A Phase 2 interventional study of Decitabine and Venetoclax in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma, sponsored by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 1 Month to 21 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-18.
Sponsored by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
Among 17 studies testing venetoclax in Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma — 11 open to participants now, 13 under way, 1 of them phase 3. venetoclax · Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma.
Among the 17 studies testing venetoclax in Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, this one is the 14th largest by planned enrollment, is one of 6 that started in 2025, is one of 9 in phase 2, reaches primary completion later than 7 of the 12 other live ones, and was the 11th registered.
420 studies on the registry are indexed under Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma; 76 are open to participants now.
Browse Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma studies →11 of the 17 studies testing venetoclax in Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma are open now, in 12 countries. Recruiting first, the newest first:
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Sites in United States
Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology · Sites in Austria, Belgium, Denmark and 11 more countries
Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology · Sites in Austria, Belgium, Denmark and 11 more countries
The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University · Sites in China
yuejun Liu · Sites in China
By country, each count listing its studies:
venetoclax: first FDA approval 2016 (VENCLEXTA), first EMA approval 2016. What it is approved for, and how studies give it, is on its page →
Of the 60 Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma studies recruiting now, 24 (40%) set no upper age limit and 31 (52%) stop at 75 or younger; 36 take children under 18; 1 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 1 Month to 21 Years · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.
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17 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
A study in two phases is counted once above. Listed by phase, each with its combined phases: Phase 1 7 · Phase 2 16 · Phase 3 1
First in 2018; this study’s year is marked. 6 started in 2025.
This study's planned enrollment of 22 is below the median of 30 across 322 interventional studies indexed under Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma.
Median enrollment 28 across the 17 interventional studies. Of the 2 that completed or were terminated, 0 (0%) have results posted.
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None of the 17 has an industry lead sponsor. The 9 most frequent:
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 3,047 studies on the registry; 578 are open to participants now.
Of its 612 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 409 (67%) have results posted.
11 studies in Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center: 3 open now, 4 under way, none of them phase 3. Of 4 finished, 2 (50%) have results posted.
Among the 11 studies in Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, this one is the 4th largest by planned enrollment, is the only one that started in 2025, is one of 3 in phase 2, and was the 10th registered.
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma studies by the year they started, since 1999.
4 of the studies testing venetoclax in Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma that are under way reach primary completion within a year, 0 of them phase 3. Phase 3 first, then by date:
| Study | Primary completion |
|---|---|
| NCT05376111The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow UniversityStudy of Venetoclax Combined With Azacitidine Regimen in Newly Diagnosed T-ALL Patients | 2026-12-01 |
| NCT04128501M.D. Anderson Cancer CenterVenetoclax and Azacitidine for the Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia in the Post-Transplant Setting | 2026-12-31 |
| NCT07012447yuejun LiuVenetoclax + Azacytidine for Newly Diagnosed ETP-like ALL and T-ALL With Myeloid Mutations | 2027-04-01 |
| NCT06686108Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of MedicineDemethylating Agents Combined With Venetoclax for High-risk T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukemia Post-Transplant Relapse Prevention | 2027-10-30 |
Among the 17 studies testing venetoclax in Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, from their registry updates:
Nothing recorded among them since 2026-09-25.
Among M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s 11 in Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma:
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To learn if giving the study drugs calaspargase pegol-mknl and decitabine in combination with venetoclax can help to control relapsed/refractory T-ALL and T-LLy. The safety of this drug combination will also be studied.
Primary Objectives:
To characterize the clinical efficacy of Calaspargase pegol-mknl and Decitabine in combination with Venetoclax in pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients with relapsed/refractory T-ALL/T-LLy based upon the complete response rate (CR).
Secondary Objectives:
To summarize efficacy per response rate, overall survival (OS), event free survival (EFS), and minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity rate.
To summarize the incidence, prevalence, and severity of adverse drug reactions according to common terminology criteria for adverse events (CTCAE) NCI CTCAE version 5.0.
To evaluate calaspargase pegol-mknl pharmacokinetics in relapsed refractory patients and investigate its correlation with asparagine levels.
Exploratory Objectives:
To summarize associations between the genomic alterations in ALL (current biomarker expression of the disease) with relation to the incidence of proceeding to HSCT in patients with PR or stable disease (SD) after the induction cycle(s).
To evaluate the effect of anti-PEG and anti-ASP antibodies (PEG-ASP) on calaspargase enzyme levels, and effect of calaspargase pegol-mknl pharmacokinetics on toxicities and treatment outcomes.
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Patients must have adequate organ function and laboratory results (obtained within 14 days of enrolment:
Females of must have a negative serum or urine beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (β-HCG) pregnancy test result within 14 days prior to the first dose of study drugs and must agree to use one of the following effective methods during the study and for 3 months following the last dose of study drug. Effective methods of birth control include:
Exclusion Criteria:
Past or current history of a secondary or other primary tumor or a chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) blast crisis with exception of:
uratively treated non-melanomatous skin cancer, other primary solid tumor treated with curative intent and no known active disease present, and no treatment administered during the last 2 years
Presence of uncontrolled CNS pathology such as epilepsy, paresis, aphasia, stroke, severe brain injuries, organic brain syndrome, or psychosis.
Presence of the following are allowed: headaches, vomiting, nerve palsy
Medical history of cardiovascular disease such as:
Clinically significant cardiac disease including congestive heart failure ( class III or IV), arrhythmia or conduction abnormality requiring medication, or cardiomyopathy.
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.
Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
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.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.
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.
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
Relapsed and refractory
Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ECOG performance status
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Autoimmune disease
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
GVHD (graft-versus-host disease)
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Clinically significant
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
NYHA class (heart failure)
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hypersensitivity
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
CYP3A (CYP3A4) inhibitors and inducers
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Drug: Decitabine · Drug: Venetoclax · Drug: Calaspargase pegol-mknl
Given by vein
Also known as: Dacogen
Given by mouth
Also known as: ABT-199, GDC-0199
Given by vein
Safety and adverse events (AEs)
Incidence of Adverse Events, Graded According to National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE) Version (v) 5.0
Time frame: Through study completion; an average of 1 year
Started Sep 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2029, 51 months after the start.
Of 41 non-industry phase 2 interventional studies under Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, half reached primary completion within 64 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 43 and three quarters within 97. This study's planned 51 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 44 studies reached it within 63 months; a quarter within 39 and three quarters within 97.
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
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Studies of the drugs tested here: Decitabine · Venetoclax · Calaspargase pegol
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