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Acute Myeloid LeukemiaPhase 2NCT03404193

Venetoclax and Decitabine in Treating Participants With Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Relapsed High-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome

A Phase 2 study testing Decitabine, Laboratory Biomarker Analysis and Venetoclax in people with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Acute Myeloid Leukemia Arising From Previous Myelodysplastic Syndrome, run by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at 1 site in United States.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

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Trial summary

This phase II trial studies how well venetoclax and decitabine work in treating participants with acute myeloid leukemia that has come back or does not respond to treatment, or with high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome that has come back. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
What is being tested?
Decitabine, Laboratory Biomarker Analysis and Venetoclax
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
235 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
18 Jan 2018to 5 Mar 2026
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Patients with AML, BPDCN, biphenotypic or bilineage leukemia (including a myeloid component) or mixed phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) who have failed prior therapy; patients with AML should have failed prior therapy or have relapsed after prior therapy; patients with isolated extramedullary AML are eligible
  • Elderly (> 60 year old) patients with newly diagnosed AML, BPDCN, or mixed phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) not eligible for intensive chemotherapy
  • Patients with newly diagnosed AML with poor risk complex karyotype and/or TP53 deletions/mutations equal or younger than 60 year old
  • AML or BPDCN patients with prior history of MDS or CMML who received any therapy or no therapy for the MDS or CMML and progressed to AML, are eligible at the time of diagnosis of AML regardless of any prior therapy for MDS; the World Health Organization (WHO) classification will be used for AML
  • Patients with high-risk MDS with bone marrow blasts between 10% and 20%, relapsed or refractory to prior hypomethylating agent (HMA) therapy, defined as prior receipt of 4 cycles of HMA therapy with failure to attain a response, or relapse after prior response to HMA therapy; patients with high risk chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) with bone marrow blasts >= 10% regardless of prior therapy
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status =< 3
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  • White blood cell count =< 10,000
  • Adequate renal function including creatinine < 2 unless related to the disease
  • Adequate hepatic function including total bilirubin < 2 x upper limit of normal (ULN) unless increase is due to Gilbert's disease or leukemic involvement
  • Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) < 3 x ULN unless considered due to leukemic involvement
  • Provision of written informed consent
  • Oral hydroxyurea and/or one dose of cytarabine (up to 2 g/m^2) for patients with rapidly proliferative disease is allowed before the start of study therapy and while the patient is on active study treatment through cycle 1, as needed, for clinical benefit and after discussion with the principal investigator (PI); concurrent therapy for central nervous system (CNS) prophylaxis or continuation of therapy for controlled CNS disease is permitted
  • Females must be surgically or biologically sterile or postmenopausal (amenorrheic for at least 12 months) or if of childbearing potential, must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 72 hours before the start of the treatment
  • Women of childbearing potential must agree to use an adequate method of contraception during the study and until 3 months after the last treatment; males must be surgically or biologically sterile or agree to use an adequate method of contraception during the study until 3 months after the last treatment

Who cannot join

  • Patients having received any prior BCL2 inhibitor therapy
  • Patients with t(15;17) karyotypic abnormality or acute promyelocytic leukemia (French-American-British [FAB] class M3-AML)
  • Patients with symptomatic CNS leukemia or patients with poorly controlled CNS leukemia
  • Active and uncontrolled comorbidities including active uncontrolled infection, uncontrolled hypertension despite adequate medical therapy, active and uncontrolled congestive heart failure New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III/IV, clinically significant and uncontrolled arrhythmia as judged by the treating physician
  • Patients with known infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or active hepatitis B or C
  • Any other medical, psychological, or social condition that may interfere with study participation or compliance, or compromise patient safety in the opinion of the investigator
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site

  • M D Anderson Cancer Center

    Houston, Texas, 77030

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About this study

Official title: A Phase II Study of Venetoclax in Combination With 10-Day Decitabine in Newly Diagnosed Elderly or Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Relapsed High-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm

This phase II trial studies how well venetoclax and decitabine work in treating participants with acute myeloid leukemia that has come back or does not respond to treatment, or with high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome that has come back. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as venetoclax and decitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading.

Read the detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

  1. To determine the overall response rate (ORR) of venetoclax in combination with 10-day decitabine in patients with refractory/relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML); elderly (> 60 year old) patients with newly diagnosed AML not eligible for intensive chemotherapy; patients with high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) with bone marrow blasts between 10% and 20%, relapsed or refractory to prior hypomethylating agent (HMA) therapy, or chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) with bone marrow blasts >= 10% regardless of prior therapy; AML patients with prior history of MDS or CMML who received therapy for the MDS or CMML and progressed to AML, and younger patients with newly diagnosed AML with poor risk complex karyotype and/or TP53 deletions/mutations and patients with blastic plasmacytoid dentritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN).

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

  1. To determine the duration of response, disease-free survival (DFS), and overall survival (OS) of patients with refractory/relapsed AML treated with this combination.

II. To determine the number of patients who achieve a hematologic improvement (HI) in platelets, hemoglobin, or absolute neutrophil count (ANC) and the number of patients who achieve > 50% reduction in blasts on therapy with venetoclax/10-day decitabine.

III. To determine the safety of venetoclax in combination with 10-day decitabine in patients with refractory/relapsed AML.

IV. To determine the number of patients who transition towards stem cell transplantation upon achieving response with the combination venetoclax/10-day decitabine regimen.

  1. To determine the incidence of infectious complications per cycle with venetoclax in combination with 10-day decitabine.

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:

  1. To investigate possible relationships between baseline protein and gene expression signatures/mutation profile and BH3 profiling in predicting clinical response to the combination.

II. To characterize the pharmacokinetic (PK) profiles of venetoclax in combination with decitabine and antifungals in plasma samples.

OUTLINE:

Participants receive decitabine intravenously (IV) over 1 hour on days 1-10 and may also receive decitabine on days 1-5 after achieving complete remission/complete remission with incomplete count recovery during consolidation/maintenance. Participants also receive venetoclax orally (PO) daily on days 1-28 of cycle 1 and on days 1-21 of subsequent cycles. Treatment repeat every 28 days for up to 24 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, participants are followed up every 3 to 6 months for up to 5 years.

Being tested
Decitabine, Laboratory Biomarker Analysis, Venetoclax
Medical subject headings
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm, Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic, Leukemia, Biphenotypic, Acute, Myelodysplastic Syndromes

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • DecitabineDrug

    Also called 5-Aza-2''-deoxycytidine, Dacogen, Decitabine for Injection, Deoxyazacytidine

    Given IV

  • Laboratory Biomarker AnalysisOther

    Correlative studies

  • VenetoclaxDrug

    Also called ABT-0199, ABT-199, ABT199, GDC-0199

    Given PO

Study groups in NCT03404193
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Treatment (decitabine, venetoclax)ExperimentalParticipants receive decitabine IV over 1 hour on days 1-10 and may also receive decitabine on days 1-5 after achieving complete remission/complete remission with incomplete count recovery during consolidation/maintenance. Participants also receive venetoclax PO daily on days 1-28 of cycle 1 and on days 1-21 of subsequent cycles. Treatment repeat every 28 days for up to 24 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Receives: Drug: Decitabine; Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis; Drug: Venetoclax

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Overall response rate (ORR)

    Will be defined as the proportion of patients who had CR (complete remission), CRp (complete remission with incomplete platelet recovery), CRi (complete remission with incomplete count recovery), PR (partial response) or marrow clearance of blasts within 3 months of treatment initiation among adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML); and complete remission (CR), partial remission (PR) or marrow CR (mCR) lasting at least 4 weeks for patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Descriptive statistics including plots, mean, median and standard deviations will be used to summarize data. Will estimate the ORR for the combination treatment, along with the 95% confidence interval. The association between ORR and patient's clinical characteristics will be examined by Wilcoxon's rank sum test or Fisher's exact test, as appropriate.

    Measured: Up to 4 cycles (112 days)

Secondary outcomes (4)

  1. Incidence of adverse events

    Toxicity type, severity and attribution will be summarized for each patient using frequency tables.

    Measured: Up to 5 years

  2. Duration of response

    Will be estimated using the method of Kaplan-Meier. Comparisons of time-to-event endpoints by important subgroups will be made using the log rank tests.

    Measured: Up to 5 years

  3. Disease free survival

    Will be estimated using the method of Kaplan-Meier. Comparisons of time-to-event endpoints by important subgroups will be made using the log rank tests.

    Measured: Up to 5 years

  4. Overall survival

    Will be estimated using the method of Kaplan-Meier. Comparisons of time-to-event endpoints by important subgroups will be made using the log rank tests.

    Measured: Up to 5 years

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted19 Jan 2018
  2. Study start18 Jan 2018
  3. Primary completion5 Mar 2026
  4. Study completion5 Mar 2026

Why it stopped: \<75% participation

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
235 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03404193
Sponsor's protocol ID
2017-0912
Other IDs
NCI-2018-00752, 2017-0912
Status last verified
Mar 2026
First submitted
11 Jan 2018
Last updated
10 Mar 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No

Publications

  • Venugopal S, Maiti A, DiNardo CD, Qiao W, Ning J, Loghavi S, Daver NG, Kadia TM, Rausch CR, Alvarado Y, Ohanian M, Sasaki K, Short NJ, Takahashi K, Yilmaz M, Ravandi F, Kantarjian HM, Konopleva MY. Prognostic impact of conventional cytogenetics in acute myeloid leukemia treated with venetoclax and decitabine. Leuk Lymphoma. 2021 Dec;62(14):3501-3505. doi: 10.1080/10428194.2021.1973675. Epub 2021 Sep 3. No abstract available.

    PubMed 34474640

  • Kim K, Maiti A, Loghavi S, Pourebrahim R, Kadia TM, Rausch CR, Furudate K, Daver NG, Alvarado Y, Ohanian M, Sasaki K, Short NJ, Takahashi K, Yilmaz M, Tang G, Ravandi F, Kantarjian HM, DiNardo CD, Konopleva MY. Outcomes of TP53-mutant acute myeloid leukemia with decitabine and venetoclax. Cancer. 2021 Oct 15;127(20):3772-3781. doi: 10.1002/cncr.33689. Epub 2021 Jul 13.

    PubMed 34255353

  • Maiti A, DiNardo CD, Wang SA, Jorgensen J, Kadia TM, Daver NG, Short NJ, Yilmaz M, Pemmaraju N, Borthakur G, Bose P, Issa GC, Ferrajoli A, Jabbour EJ, Jain N, Garcia-Manero G, Ohanian M, Takahashi K, Montalban-Bravo G, Masarova L, Burger JA, Thompson PA, Verstovsek S, Sasaki K, Andreeff M, Rausch CR, Montalbano KS, Pierce S, Qiao W, Ning J, Kantarjian HM, Konopleva MY, Ravandi F. Prognostic value of measurable residual disease after venetoclax and decitabine in acute myeloid leukemia. Blood Adv. 2021 Apr 13;5(7):1876-1883. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020003717.

    PubMed 33792630

  • Venugopal S, Maiti A, DiNardo CD, Loghavi S, Daver NG, Kadia TM, Rausch CR, Alvarado Y, Ohanian M, Sasaki K, Short NJ, Takahashi K, Yilmaz M, Ravandi F, Kantarjian HM, Konopleva MY. Decitabine and venetoclax for IDH1/2-mutated acute myeloid leukemia. Am J Hematol. 2021 May 1;96(5):E154-E157. doi: 10.1002/ajh.26122. Epub 2021 Feb 19. No abstract available.

    PubMed 33580980

  • Laribi K, Baugier de Materre A, Sobh M, Cerroni L, Valentini CG, Aoki T, Suzuki R, Takeuchi K, Frankel AE, Cota C, Ghez D, Le Calloch R, Pagano L, Petrella T. Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasms: results of an international survey on 398 adult patients. Blood Adv. 2020 Oct 13;4(19):4838-4848. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020002474.

    PubMed 33027528

  • DiNardo CD, Maiti A, Rausch CR, Pemmaraju N, Naqvi K, Daver NG, Kadia TM, Borthakur G, Ohanian M, Alvarado Y, Issa GC, Montalban-Bravo G, Short NJ, Yilmaz M, Bose P, Jabbour EJ, Takahashi K, Burger JA, Garcia-Manero G, Jain N, Kornblau SM, Thompson PA, Estrov Z, Masarova L, Sasaki K, Verstovsek S, Ferrajoli A, Weirda WG, Wang SA, Konoplev S, Chen Z, Pierce SA, Ning J, Qiao W, Ravandi F, Andreeff M, Welch JS, Kantarjian HM, Konopleva MY. 10-day decitabine with venetoclax for newly diagnosed intensive chemotherapy ineligible, and relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukaemia: a single-centre, phase 2 trial. Lancet Haematol. 2020 Oct;7(10):e724-e736. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3026(20)30210-6. Epub 2020 Sep 5.

    PubMed 32896301

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Decitabine, Laboratory Biomarker Analysis and Venetoclax in people with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Acute Myeloid Leukemia Arising From Previous Myelodysplastic Syndrome, run by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 14 inclusion and 7 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 10 Mar 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study was stopped early (reason given: \<75% participation). Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Overall response rate (ORR) (time frame: Up to 4 cycles (112 days)). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT03404193, which also lists 6 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 10 Mar 2026.

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