A Phase 2 interventional study of Naxitamab in High-Risk Neuroblastoma, sponsored by Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Recruiting at 1 site in Israel. Open to participants aged 12 Months to 21 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-17.
Sponsored by Shaare Zedek Medical Center · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
This clinical trial will evaluate the safety of chemoimmunotherapy with Naxitamab and COG-type induction chemotherapy in newly-diagnosed patients with high-risk neuroblastoma. We aim to recruit 10 patients over the next 2 years.
This clinical trial will use the backbone of the St. Jude NB2012 protocol which assessed the hu14.18K322A anti-GD2 antibody with COG type induction. The current study will replace the hu14.18K322A with Naxitamab. Naxitamab is an anti-GD2 antibody that was evaluated as part of multiple chemoimmunotherapy protocols with favorable side effect profile and proven efficacy.
Patients will receive COG type recommended therapy as administered on ANBL1531 and NB2012 protocols with the addition of Naxitamab and GM-CSF to Induction Cycles 1-5. Further treatment, including: Consolidation, Radiation and Post-Consolidation therapy will be given at the discretion of the treating physician.
Patients will undergo complete assessment prior to trial enrollment, after 2 cycles, and post chemotherapy to allow for accurate assessment of response to treatment. If less than partial response, the patient will be taken off the protocol. A patient diagnosed with progressive disease at any stage of treatment will be taken off the protocol. Follow-up assessments will be carried out post surgery, and every 4 months for 5 years from diagnosis.
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Clinical eligibility criteria:
Pathology:
Molecular testing:
Timing of patient enrollment
Pre-treatment functional status:
i. Renal function based on the Schwartz formula (Schwartz et al. J. Peds, 106:522, 1985). If creatinine level is abnormal chemotherapy treatment will be planned in consultation with Nephrology service. Naxitamab will be initiated if creatinine level is up to 1.2 of normal.
ii. Adequate liver function defined as: -
1. Shortening fraction of ≥ 27% by echocardiogram, 2. or of ≥ 50% by echocardiogram or radionuclide angiogram.
Exclusion Criteria:
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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.
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.
A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
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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.
Able to have children. For women this usually means from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery; for men, unless permanently sterile. Read who the line is about — participants, women, men, or their partners.
Criteria about it usually ask 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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Immunosuppression
A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.
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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.
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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.
Reproductive potential
Able to have children. For women this usually means from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery; for men, unless permanently sterile. Read who the line is about — participants, women, men, or their partners.
Criteria about it usually ask 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.
All enrolled patients receive Naxitamab and GM-CSF in combination with induction therapy for newly-diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma
Drug: Naxitamab
Naxitamab and GM-CSF administered with COG type induction chemotherapy.
Also known as: Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF)
Evaluate the safety of chemoimmunotherapy with Naxitamab and COG-type induction chemotherapy in newly diagnosed patients with high-risk neuroblastoma
This measure will be assessed by evaluating treatment side effects.
Time frame: Post 2nd course, and post 5th course of chemoimmunotherapy (therapy lasts approximately 4 and a half months)
Assess end-of-induction (EOI) response rates following concurrent Naxitamab and induction chemotherapy in newly diagnosed patients with high-risk neuroblastoma.
This measure will be assessed using the 1993 International Neuroblastoma Response Criteria (INRC) criteria.
Time frame: Post 5th course of chemoimmunotherapy (therapy lasts approximately 4 and a half months)
Assess end-of-induction (EOI) response rates following additional cycles of Irinotecan-Temodar-Naxitamab-GM-CSF in patients with high risk neuroblastoma and less than partial response (PR) after induction with COG type chemotherapy and Naxitamab
Time frame: Post 5th course of chemoimmunotherapy (therapy lasts approximately 4 and a half months)
Determine event-free survival (EFS) in newly diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma patients
Time frame: From enrollment until completion of follow-up, 5 years from diagnosis
Metastatic complete response after cycle 2 and at end of induction.
To be assessed using one of the following: MIBG - Metaiodobenzylguanidin; CT - Computed Tomography; MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging; PET-DOPA - Fluorine-18 Fluorodopa Positron Emission Tomography.
Time frame: Post 2nd course, and post 5th course of induction therapy (therapy lasts approximately 4 and a half months)
Plan to share: Yes — De-identified, anonymized data will be shared.
Supporting information: Statistical analysis plan
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Started Jun 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jun 2028, 24 months after the start.
Of 62 non-industry phase 2 interventional studies under Neuroblastoma, half reached primary completion within 74 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 52 and three quarters within 99. This study's planned 24 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 67 studies reached it within 74 months; a quarter within 52 and three quarters within 99.
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Studies of the drug tested here: Naxitamab