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RecruitingNCT07353840T-START-CRUpdated Jan 20, 2026

T Cell Lymphoma -Stratified Therapy After Response to First-line Treatment-CR

An observational study in Peripheral T Cell Lymphoma, sponsored by Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-01-20.

Sponsored by Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
160
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is a multicenter, two-arm, prospective clinical trial, comprising two groups: the observation group and the autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation group (Auto-HSCT). It aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Auto-HSCT and observation in the treatment of peripheral T-cell lymphoma that has achieved complete response (CR) after first-line therapy. During the screening/baseline period, informed consent will be obtained, and inclusion/exclusion criteria will be verified. Group assignment (Observation vs. Auto-HSCT) will be determined taking into account the patient's preference. The study plans to enroll 80 patients in each group. Data on demographics and medical history will be collected, and assessments including vital signs, physical examination, PET-CT, bone marrow aspiration smear, flow cytometry, and bone marrow pathology will be performed.

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Conditions studied

  • Peripheral T Cell Lymphoma

Keywords

  • Peripheral T Cell Lymphoma
  • autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  • observation
  • complete response
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In context

Lymphoma, T-Cell, Peripheral

372 studies on the registry are indexed under Lymphoma, T-Cell, Peripheral; 110 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 160 is close to the median of 160 across 31 observational studies indexed under Lymphoma, T-Cell, Peripheral.

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Lead sponsor

Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine is the lead sponsor of 182 studies on the registry; 108 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Probability sample

Study population

The patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma that has achieved complete response (CR) after first-line therapy.

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Age between 18 and 70 years (inclusive) at the time of signing the Form (ICF).
  2. Performance Status score of 0 or 1, with no deterioration over the preceding two weeks.
  3. of at least 12 weeks.
  4. confirmed diagnosis of PTCL by the central study site according to the 2016 revised WHO classification of lymphoid neoplasms (Swerdlow SH et al. 2016). Eligible histological subtypes are restricted to the following:

    1. Peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified (PTCL-NOS)
    2. Anaplastic large cell lymphoma, ALK-negative (ALK- ALCL)
    3. Follicular helper T-cell lymphoma or PTCL with a TFH phenotype (FTCL or PTCL-TFH)
  5. Must have achieved a Complete Response (CR) as assessed per the Lugano 2014 classification criteria for lymphoma response after systemic standard therapy (CHOP or a CHOP-like regimen).
  6. Adequate hepatic and renal function, defined as:

    1. Hepatic: Serum total ≤ 2 × (or ≤ 3.0 × ULN in cases of Gilbert's syndrome or documented baseline liver involvement); (ALT) and Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 2.5 × ULN (or ≤ 5.0 × ULN in cases of liver involvement).
    2. Renal: Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 × ULN, or ≥ 50 mL/min as calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula or measured.
  7. (LVEF) ≥ 50% as measured by Multigated Acquisition (MUGA) scan or Echocardiography (ECHO).
  8. Voluntary participation in the clinical study; full understanding and awareness of the study, and having signed the ICF; willingness and ability to comply with and complete all trial procedures.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

1.Ann Arbor Stage I disease. 2.History of any other within the past 5 years, except for locally curable malignancies that have been treated with curative intent (e.g., basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, superficial bladder cancer, or carcinoma in situ of the prostate, cervix, or breast).

3.Active infection, including:

  1. Known active or latent tuberculosis, evidenced by a positive tuberculin (PPD) skin test (where a positive result is defined as an induration >10 mm or per local clinical standards) or findings suggestive of active/latent TB on chest X-ray/CT.
  2. Known history of (HIV) infection and/or AIDS.
  3. Chronic active or C infection:

    1. For hepatitis B virus (HBV): Subjects who are HBV DNA positive are excluded. Subjects with undetectable HBV DNA levels are eligible. The (ULN) for HBV DNA is determined by the local laboratory at each center.
    2. For virus (HCV): Subjects who are HCV RNA positive are excluded. Subjects with undetectable HCV RNA are eligible. The ULN for HCV RNA is determined by the local laboratory at each center.
  4. Active viral infections other than hepatitis B or C (e.g., herpes zoster), or cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection.
  5. Infection requiring intravenous antimicrobial therapy: evidenced by infection-related hemodynamic instability, worsening or new-onset infectious symptoms/signs, radiologic evidence of a new infectious focus, or persistent fever without localizing signs where infection cannot be ruled out.
  6. Positive serological test for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). 4.Poorly controlled cardiac symptoms or diseases, such as: i. Heart failure > (NYHA) Class II. ii. Unstable angina. iii. Myocardial infarction within the past year. iv. supraventricular or ventricular arrhythmia requiring treatment or intervention.

5.Pregnant or lactating women, and subjects of unwilling to employ effective .

6.Patients with psychiatric disorders or those unable to provide .

7.Any other condition which, in the investigator's judgment, makes the subject unsuitable for participation in this study

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(18)

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.

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.

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.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

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.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

Line of therapy

A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.

“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.

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.

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.

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.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
160 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Groups and cohorts

  • observation

    This is a patient cohort that receives monitoring after first-line therapy with complete response.

    Other: Observation

  • Auto-HSCT

    Auto-HSCT involves the infusion of the patient's own previously collected stem cells.

    Procedure: Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Interventions

  • ProcedureAutologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

    Auto-HSCT involves the infusion of the patient's own previously collected stem cells.

  • OtherObservation

    This is a patient cohort that receives monitoring after first-line therapy with complete response.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. event-free survival (EFS)

    Event-free survival (EFS) rates post-transplant. An event is defined as whichever of the following occurs first: disease progression, death from any cause, commencement of new anti-tumor therapy, or a treatment-related serious adverse event (specifically including disabling events or secondary neoplasms). Subjects who were event-free at the data cutoff will be censored on the date of their last tumor assessment.

    Time frame: up to 2 years for the 2y-EFS

Secondary outcomes

  1. 1y and 2y-cumulative relapse rates (CIR)

    The cumulative probability of disease progression (including relapse or progression of the primary disease) within 1 or 2 years after transplantation, with non-progression-related death treated as a competing event.

    Time frame: up to 1 years for the 1y-CIR and up to 2 years for the 2y-CIR

  2. Disease-Free Survival (DFS)

    DFS means the time from transplantation until the first occurrence of any of the following events: disease recurrence, disease progression, or death from any cause.

    Time frame: up to 1 years for the DFS

  3. overall survival (OS)

    The probability of survival at 1 or 2 years, measured from the date of transplantation to death from any cause. Patients who are still alive at the time of analysis will be censored on the last follow-up date.

    Time frame: up to 1 years for the 1y-OS and up to 2 years for the 2y-OS

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Tournilhac O, Altmann B, Friedrichs B, Bouabdallah K, Leclerc M, Cartron G, Turlure P, Reimer P, Wagner-Drouet E, Sanhes L, Houot R, Roussel M, Kroschinsky F, Dreger P, Viardot A, de Leval L, Rosenwald A, Gaulard P, Wulf G, Villate A, Latiere C, Elmaagacli A, Glass B, Poeschel V, Damaj G, Sibon D, Durot E, Bilger K, Banos A, Haenel M, Dreyling M, Keller U, Tiab M, Drenou B, Cornillon J, Nguyen S, Robin M, Nickelsen M, Trumper L, Lenz G, Ziepert M, Schmitz N; French Lymphoma Study Association (LYSA), the Societe Francophone de greffe de moelle et Therapie Cellulaire (SFGM-TC), and the German Lymphoma Alliance (GLA). Long-Term Follow-Up of the Prospective Randomized AATT Study (Autologous or Allogeneic Transplantation in Patients With Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma). J Clin Oncol. 2024 Nov 10;42(32):3788-3794. doi: 10.1200/JCO.24.00554. Epub 2024 Sep 13. PubMed 39270145 ↗
  • Schmitz N, Truemper L, Bouabdallah K, Ziepert M, Leclerc M, Cartron G, Jaccard A, Reimer P, Wagner E, Wilhelm M, Sanhes L, Lamy T, de Leval L, Rosenwald A, Roussel M, Kroschinsky F, Lindemann W, Dreger P, Viardot A, Milpied N, Gisselbrecht C, Wulf G, Gyan E, Gaulard P, Bay JO, Glass B, Poeschel V, Damaj G, Sibon D, Delmer A, Bilger K, Banos A, Haenel M, Dreyling M, Metzner B, Keller U, Braulke F, Friedrichs B, Nickelsen M, Altmann B, Tournilhac O. A randomized phase 3 trial of autologous vs allogeneic transplantation as part of first-line therapy in poor-risk peripheral T-NHL. Blood. 2021 May 13;137(19):2646-2656. doi: 10.1182/blood.2020008825. PubMed 33512419 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Start is estimated for Jan 2026; primary completion for May 2029, 40 months later.

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

Registered
Jan 12, 2026
First posted
Jan 20, 2026
StartEst.
Jan 20, 2026
Primary completionEst.
May 30, 2029
CompletionEst.
Sep 30, 2029
Last update
Jan 20, 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.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 20, 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
NCT07353840
Responsible party
Xianmin Song, MD (Professor, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jan 20, 2026
Start date
Jan 20, 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
May 30, 2029 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 30, 2029 (estimated)
Last update
Jan 20, 2026

Study contacts

xianmin song, MD
Contact
shongxm@139.com
+862163240090

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
View the source record on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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