Clinical trial • Phase III • Oncology|Haematology

blinatumomab for Philadelphia chromosome-positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia|ABL-class Ph-like B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Phase III trial of blinatumomab for Philadelphia chromosome-positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia|ABL-class Ph-like B-cell acute lymphoblastic leuk…

Overview

Trial Therapeutic Area
Oncology|Haematology
Trial Disease
Philadelphia chromosome-positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia|ABL-class Ph-like B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Trial Stage
Phase III
Drug Modality
Bispecific antibody
Paediatric Trial
Yes

Key dates

Initial CTIS Submission Date
14-08-2025
First CTIS Authorization Date
09-12-2025

Trial design

None/Not specified-controlled Phase III trial in Austria, Germany, Denmark and others.

Comparator
None/Not specified
Biomarker Stratified
True - Biomarker: ABL-class fusions (including BCR::ABL1 and ABL-class fusion genes such as ABL1, ABL2, CSF1R, PDGFRB). Strata: Ph+ (BCR::ABL1-rearranged) vs ABL-class Ph-like; within ABL-class Ph-like: PDGFRB fusion-positive vs PDGFRB fusion-negative (dictating imatinib vs dasatinib).
Target Sample Size
87

Eligibility

Recruits 87 paediatric patients.

Pregnancy Exclusion
Pregnancy and breast feeding
Vulnerable Population
The trial includes children, adolescents and young adults (paediatric populations). Age-specific consent/assent materials are provided (multiple Subject Information Sheets and Informed Consent Forms for different age groups and for guardians are listed in the application documents, e.g. forms for children 6-11 yrs, 7-9, 10-13, 12-15, 14-17, 15-17, for patients ≥16 yrs, and guardian/parent consent forms). Guardians/parents provide consent for minors and age-appropriate assent/information is obtained from children and adolescents as per the age-specific ICF/SIS documents.

Inclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients must be >365 days and <18 years (for AIEOP-BFM), >365 days and <22 years (for COG) and >365 days and <46 years (for ALLTogether sites) at the time of enrollment."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Adequate liver function"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Adequate cardiac function"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Newly-diagnosed Ph+ or ABL-class Ph-like B-ALL. Leukemic blasts must express CD19. ABL-class fusions are defined as rearrangements involving the following genes predicted to be sensitive to imatinib and/or dasatinib: ABL1, ABL2, CSF1R, and PDGFRB."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Evidence of BCR::ABL1 should be documented by a clinically-validated assay prior to study entry on Day 15 from the first dose of vincristine during Induction therapy."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients with Ph+ B-ALL must have previously started Induction therapy, which includes vincristine, a corticosteroid, pegaspargase or calaspargase pegol, with or without anthracycline, and/or other standard cytotoxic chemotherapy."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients with Ph+ B-ALL have not received more than 14 days of systemic Induction therapy beginning with the first Induction dose of vincristine."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients with ABL-class Ph-like B-ALL must have previously completed 4 or 5 weeks of multiagent Induction chemotherapy"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients may have started either imatinib or dasatinib prior to study entry but should have received no more than 14 days of TKI for Ph+ B-ALL or no more than 35 days of TKI for ABL-class Ph-like B-ALL."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients must have a performance status corresponding to ECOG scores of ≤2 or Karnofsky and Lansky performance scores ≥50%. Use Karnofsky for patients >16 years of age and Lansky for patients ≤ 16 years of age."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Adequate renal function"}

Exclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Known history of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients with significant central nervous system pathology that would preclude treatment with blinatumomab, including history of severe neurologic disorder or autoimmune disease with CNS involvement"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- HIV-infected patients are eligible if on effective anti-retroviral therapy that does not interact with planned study agents and with undetectable viral load within 6 months of treatment"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- ABL-class Ph-like B-ALL who are CNS2 or CNS3 at end of Induction phase."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- 3.\tALL developing after a previous cancer treated with cytotoxic chemotherapy"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Active, uncontrolled infection or active systemic illness that requires ongoing vasopressor support or mechanical ventilation"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Pregnancy and breast feeding"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Prior treatment with TKIs before study entry with the exception of imatinib or dasatinib"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients with congenital long QT syndrome, history of ventricular arrhythmias, or heart block"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients with known Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease"}

Endpoints

Primary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- To estimate the 3-year event free survival (EFS) of children, adolescents, and young adults <25 years old with newly-diagnosed Ph+ B-ALL who are treated with a modified Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster (BFM) chemotherapy backbone that incorporates three cycles of blinatumomab without traditional consolidation chemotherapy in combination with continuous dasatinib","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Estimate 3-year event-free survival (EFS) in the specified population treated with the specified regimen (time-to-event analysis assessing events over 3 years)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- To estimate the 3-year EFS of children, adolescents, and young adults <25 years old with newly-diagnosed ABL-class Ph-like B-ALL who are treated with a modified BFM chemotherapy backbone that incorporates three cycles of blinatumomab without traditional consolidation chemotherapy in combination with continuous imatinib for those with PDGFRB fusions or dasatinib for those without PDGFRB fusions","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Estimate 3-year event-free survival (EFS) in the ABL-class Ph-like cohort, with subgroup assignment based on PDGFRB fusion status; measured as time-to-event over 3 years."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- To describe the safety and toxicity profile (infections, mucositis, neurotoxicity, cytokine release syndrome, hypogammaglobulinemia, therapy delays > 14 days, and treatment-related mortality) for patients with Ph+ or ABL-class Ph-like B-ALL treated on this novel chemo-immunotherapy backbone with continuous TKI.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Descriptive safety endpoints capturing incidences of listed toxicities, therapy delays >14 days, and treatment-related mortality; standard toxicity grading and summarisation over treatment period."}

Secondary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- To estimate the 3-year overall survival (OS) of patients with Ph+ and ABL-class Ph-like B-ALL, respectively.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Estimate 3-year overall survival (OS) by Kaplan-Meier/time-to-event analysis for each cohort."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- To estimate the 3-year EFS, disease-free survival (DFS), cumulative incidence rates (CIR) of relapse, and treatment related mortality (TRM), and OS of patients with ABL-class Ph-like B-ALL stratified by their underlying ABL-class fusion subtypes.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Estimate 3-year EFS, DFS, CIR of relapse, TRM and OS overall and stratified by ABL-class fusion subtype (time-to-event analyses and cumulative incidence methods)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- To describe rates of EOC/TP2 MRD negativity defined as <1x10-4 or <0.01% for patients with ABL-class Ph-like B-ALL collectively and based on their ABL-class fusion subtypes.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Proportion of patients achieving minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity at end of consolidation (EOC)/timepoint 2 (TP2), defined as <1x10^-4 (<0.01%), reported overall and by fusion subtype."}

Recruitment

Planned Sample Size
87
Recruitment Window Months
60
Consent Approach
Informed consent is handled with age-specific information sheets and ICFs: guardians/parents provide consent for minors and age-appropriate assent/information is provided to children and adolescents. Multiple country- and age-specific SIS/ICF documents are submitted (e.g. forms for children 6-11 yrs, 7-9, 10-13, 12-15, 14-17, 15-17, patients ≥16 yrs, and guardian/parent consent forms). The protocol specifies use of Karnofsky performance score for patients >16 years and Lansky for patients ≤16 years.

Geography

Total Number Of Participants
87

Austria

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
07-11-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
14-12-2025
Processing Time Days
37
Number Of Participants
3

Germany

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
07-11-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
11-12-2025
Processing Time Days
34
Number Of Participants
20

Denmark

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
24-11-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
10-12-2025
Processing Time Days
16
Number Of Participants
3

France

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
11-11-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
15-12-2025
Processing Time Days
34
Number Of Participants
19

Hungary

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
14-10-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
15-12-2025
Processing Time Days
62
Number Of Participants
2

Lithuania

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
18-11-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
10-12-2025
Processing Time Days
22
Number Of Participants
1

Spain

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
01-10-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
12-12-2025
Processing Time Days
72
Number Of Participants
5

Norway

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
25-11-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
11-12-2025
Processing Time Days
16
Number Of Participants
2

Slovakia

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
31-10-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
11-12-2025
Processing Time Days
41
Number Of Participants
2

Italy

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
21-11-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
09-12-2025
Processing Time Days
18
Number Of Participants
20

Netherlands

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
10-11-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
11-12-2025
Processing Time Days
31
Number Of Participants
5

Finland

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
06-11-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
13-02-2026
Processing Time Days
99
Number Of Participants
2

Czechia

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
25-09-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
08-05-2026
Processing Time Days
225
Number Of Participants
3

Sponsor

Primary sponsor

Full Name
Universita Degli Studi Di Milano Bicocca
Organisation Type
Educational Institution
Country Of Registered Address
Italy

Third parties

  • {"country":"Denmark","full_name":"Region Hovedstaden","duties_or_roles":"5","organisation_type":"Hospital/Clinic/Other health care facility"}

Investigational products

Investigational Product Name
BLINCYTO 38.5 micrograms powder for concentrate and solution for solution for infusion.
Active Substance
blinatumomab
Modality
Bispecific antibody
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION
Route
Intravenous
Authorisation Status
Authorised (Marketing authorisation EU/1/15/1047/001)
Dose Levels
Max daily dose: 28 µg; Max total dose: 2352 µg
Maximum Dose
2352 µg total; 28 µg max daily
Combination Treatment
Yes

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