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RecruitingNCT07537400Updated Sep 17, 2026

Patients Between the Ages of 12 Months to 21 Years With Newly-Diagnosed High-Risk Neuroblastoma Will Receive Children's Oncology Group (COG) Type Recommended Therapy With the Addition of Naxitamab and Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF) to Induction Cycles 1-5

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

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jun 2026; still recruiting 4 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
10
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
12 Months to 21 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

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.

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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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Conditions studied

  • High-Risk Neuroblastoma

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Keywords

  • Neuroblastoma
  • High-risk
  • Resistant to treatment
  • Newly-diagnosed
  • Naxitamab
  • Anti-GD2 antibody
  • Chemotherapy
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In context

Neuroblastoma

675 studies on the registry are indexed under Neuroblastoma; 127 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 10 is below the median of 32 across 507 interventional studies indexed under Neuroblastoma.

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Lead sponsor

Shaare Zedek Medical Center is the lead sponsor of 195 studies on the registry; 19 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
12 Months to 21 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Age - 12 months to 21 years at protocol enrollment
  • Clinical eligibility criteria:

    1. Newly diagnosed high risk neuroblastoma.
    2. BOTH stage M (INRG - International Neuroblastoma Risk Group) and age ≥547 days.
    3. Patients ≥ 547 days of age who were initially diagnosed with INRG L1 or L2 disease but progress to Stage M without chemotherapy
    4. Patients \< 547 days of age with INRG Stage M or MS disease and patients of any age with INRG L2 with MYCN amplification (v-myc avian myelocytomatosis viral related oncogene)
  • Pathology:

    1. Neuroblastoma (NBL) or ganglioneuroblastoma (nodular) verified by tumor pathology analysis, or
    2. demonstration of clumps of tumor cells in bone marrow with elevated urinary catecholamines
  • Molecular testing:

    1. MYCN testing will be done by FISH (Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) assessment of the FFPE (Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded) material submitted from the tumor mass. > 4-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals will qualify as MYCN amplified.
    2. ONCOMINE testing will evaluate ALK (Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase) mutation
  • Timing of patient enrollment

    1. Patients will be enrolled up to 6 weeks from primary diagnosis
    2. Pre-study imaging tests are acceptable up to 3 weeks prior to study enrollment and only if done after any pre-protocol chemotherapy.
  • Pre-treatment functional status:

    1. No active bacterial infection without adequate antibiotic therapy
    2. No uncontrolled viral infection - decision will be made after infectious disease consultation
    3. No uncontrolled organ dysfunction:

    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. Total ≤ 1.5 x (ULN) for age,
  2. and (Serum Glutamic Pyruvic Transaminase - ALT) ≤ 10 x ULN* iii. Adequate cardiac function defined as: -

1. Shortening fraction of ≥ 27% by echocardiogram, 2. or of ≥ 50% by echocardiogram or radionuclide angiogram.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Subjects who have had prior systemic therapy except for localized emergency radiation to sites of life-threatening or function-threatening disease and/or no more than 1 cycle of chemotherapy.
  • This will not restrict the emergency regimen at initial diagnosis.
  • Patients who are 365-546 days of age with INRG Stage M and MYCN non-amplified NBL, irrespective of additional biologic features.
  • Patients ≥547 days of age with INRG Stage L2, MYCN non-amplified NBL, regardless of additional biologic features.
  • Patients with known bone marrow failure syndromes.
  • Patients on chronic medications (e.g., tacrolimus, cyclosporine, ) for reasons other than prevention/treatment of allergic reactions and adrenal replacement therapy are not eligible. Topical and inhaled corticosteroids are acceptable.
  • Patients with a primary immunodeficiency syndrome who require ongoing immune globulin replacement therapy.
  • Female patients who are pregnant since fetal toxicities and teratogenic effects have been noted for several of the study drugs. A pregnancy test is required prior to enrollment for female patients of .
  • Lactating females who plan to breastfeed their infants.
  • Sexually active patients of who have not agreed to use an effective method for the duration of their study participation.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(9)

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

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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.

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.

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

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
10 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Naxitamab and GM-CSF

    All enrolled patients receive Naxitamab and GM-CSF in combination with induction therapy for newly-diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma

    Drug: Naxitamab

Interventions

  • Naxitamab and GM-CSF administered with COG type induction chemotherapy.

    Also known as: Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF)

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. 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)

  2. 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)

  3. 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)

Secondary outcomes

  1. 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

  2. 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)

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — De-identified, anonymized data will be shared.

Supporting information: Statistical analysis plan

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

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.

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

Registered
Apr 9, 2026
First posted
Apr 17, 2026
StartActual
Jun 23, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Jun 2028
CompletionEst.
Apr 2032
Last update
Sep 17, 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 Sep 17, 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
NCT07537400
Collaborators
Y-mAbs Therapeutics
Responsible party
Iris Fried (Director of the Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center) — Principal investigator
First posted
Apr 17, 2026
Start date
Jun 23, 2026
Primary completion
Jun 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Apr 2032 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 17, 2026

Study contacts

Dr. Iris Fried
Contact
irisf@szmc.org.il
00972 508573151
Rosi Goldenberg
Contact
rosig@szmc.org.il
00972 524426504
Iris Fried, MD
principal investigator · Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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