A Phase 2 interventional study of Intervention for Venetoclax and Intervention for Homoharringtonine in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), sponsored by First People's Hospital of Hangzhou. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-04-02.
Sponsored by First People's Hospital of Hangzhou · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
This study is a single-arm, prospective, multi-center exploratory clinical trial. A total of 61 patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who are not suitable for intensive chemotherapy will be enrolled. The Simon two-stage design will be adopted to control the type I and type II errors, with the minimum acceptable composite remission rate of 65% and a power of 80%.
Prior to treatment, subjects will undergo screening within 28 days, including bone marrow aspiration, genetic testing, ECOG performance status assessment, and organ function evaluation. Data will be recorded in Excel and subject to unified quality control. During the treatment period, G-CSF (granulocyte colony-stimulating factor) will be administered subcutaneously as appropriate, and supportive care such as antiemetic and hydration therapy will be provided routinely.
For patients who achieve remission, individualized consolidation therapy will be given: those eligible for transplantation will undergo allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; those who can tolerate moderate-intensity treatment will receive consolidation with medium-dose cytarabine first, followed by 4 cycles of VHAG regimen consolidation. Patients with FLT3 mutations will receive additional targeted therapy during consolidation.
Safety assessment will be conducted in accordance with the NCI-CTCAE Version 5.0. For grade 4 hematological toxicity or severe non-hematological toxicity, the treatment dose will be adjusted or the treatment will be suspended. Severe adverse events will be reported in a timely manner, and all research-related data will be retained for at least 10 years in accordance with relevant regulations.
According to the detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria, first-line induction therapy: VHAG regimen Venetoclax 100 mg on day 2, 200 mg on day 3, 400 mg on days 4-10; Homoharringtonine 1 mg/m² on days 1-7; Azacitidine 75 mg/m² on days 1-7; G-CSF 5 μg/kg subcutaneously starting on day 0;G-CSF to be discontinued if WBC ≥ 30 × 10⁹/L.
One cycle every 4 weeks, for a total of 2 cycles.Patients who achieve CR/CRi/MLFS/PR after the first cycle will receive one additional cycle of the same regimen for consolidation(venetoclax 400 mg on days 1-7 in the second course).
Subsequent treatment After achieving remission, re-evaluate tolerability comprehensively based on age, performance status, comorbidities, and other factors.
Patients eligible for transplantation will undergo allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Transplant-ineligible patients:
Those tolerable to intensive chemotherapy may receive1-2 courses of intermediate-dose cytarabine consolidation,followed by 4 courses of VHAG consolidation.
Those intolerant to intensive chemotherapy will continue6 courses of VHAG consolidation.
Patients with FLT3 mutations in the intermediate- or high-risk groups may receive combination therapy with a FLT3 inhibitor during consolidation.
Endpoints Primary endpoint: Composite complete remission rate (CRc: CR + CRi)
Secondary endpoints:
Overall response rate (ORR: CR + CRi + MLFS + PR) Overall survival (OS) Relapse-free survival (RFS) Rate of measurable residual disease (MRD) negativity Safety Hematologic and non-hematologic toxicities (NCI CTCAE version 5.0) Exploratory biomarker evaluation
3,667 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; 816 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 61 is above the median of 40 across 3,005 interventional studies indexed under Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute.
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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.
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.
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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FEV1
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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Excipients
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
All enrolled patients will receive the VHAG combination regimen, consisting of venetoclax, homoharringtonine, azacitidine, and G-CSF, according to the study protocol. The regimen includes induction therapy followed by optional consolidation cycles as specified in the protocol.
Drug: Intervention for Venetoclax · Drug: Intervention for Homoharringtonine · Drug: Intervention for Azacitidine · Drug: Intervention for G-CSF
Oral administration of venetoclax. The starting dose is 100 mg on Day 2, 200 mg on Day 3, and 400 mg once daily from Day 4 to Day 10 of each induction cycle. Dose adjustments may be made per protocol based on tolerability and safety.
Intravenous infusion of homoharringtonine at a dose of 1 mg/m² daily from Day 1 to Day 7 of each induction cycle.
Subcutaneous or intravenous administration of azacitidine at a dose of 75 mg/m² daily from Day 1 to Day 7 of each induction cycle.
Subcutaneous administration of G-CSF at a dose of 5 μg/kg daily, initiated prior to the start of induction therapy (Day 0). Discontinuation will be per protocol when the white blood cell count (WBC) exceeds 30 × 10⁹/L.
CRc（CR+CRi）
Composite complete remission (CR) plus CR with incomplete hematologic recovery
Time frame: After 2 cycles of induction therapy(each cycle is 28 days; approximately Day 56)
ORR（CR+CRi+MLFS+PR）
Objective Response Rate (Complete Response + Complete Response with incomplete hematologic recovery + Marrow Leukemia-Free State + Partial Response)
Time frame: After 2 cycles of induction therapy(each cycle is 28 days; approximately Day 56)
OS
Overall Survival
Time frame: 1year
RFS
Relapse-Free Survival
Time frame: 1year
MRD
Rate of negative conversion of evaluable minimal residual disease (MRD)
Time frame: After 2 cycles of induction therapy(each cycle is 28 days; approximately Day 56)
NCICTCAEv5.0
Safety: Hematologic and non-hematologic toxicities (NCI CTCAE v5.0)
Time frame: After 2 cycles of induction therapy(each cycle is 28 days; approximately Day 56)
EBS
Exploratory biomarker assessment
Time frame: After 2 cycles of induction therapy(each cycle is 28 days; approximately Day 56)
Plan to share: No — The individual participant data (IPD) will not be shared, due to the constraints of patient privacy protection, informed consent limitations, and institutional data management policies. All data generated from this study will be used solely for the primary research objectives of this trial, and will not be disclosed to external third-party researchers without additional ethical approval and explicit patient consent.
Start is estimated for Mar 2026; primary completion for Mar 2028, 24 months later.
Of 385 non-industry phase 2 interventional studies under Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, half reached primary completion within 67 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 40 and three quarters within 108. This study's planned 24 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 442 studies reached it within 60 months; a quarter within 38 and three quarters within 104.
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