At a glance
- What the study gets you
- Access to the study treatment being tested
- Type of study
- Interventional (receives a drug or procedure)
- Time in hospital
- In-person visits at study sites — visit count not specified by the sponsor
- Drug or intervention
- Dasatinib (drug), Venetoclax (drug), Dexamethasone (drug), Cyclophosphamide (drug)
- How long the study runs
- Study runs about 76 months (dates as stated)
- About the drug or intervention
- Dasatinib — drug: Oral · Venetoclax — drug: oral · Dexamethasone — drug: oral/intervenous · Cyclophosphamide — drug: intravenous · Cytarabine — drug: intravenous · intrathecal chemotherapy — drug: IT: Methotrexate +/- prednisone/hydrocortisone/cytarabine according to the degree of central nervous involvement
- Patient visit burden
- Not specified by the sponsor
In plain English
This trial is for children and young people (aged 1 to under 21) whose leukaemia or lymphoblastic lymphoma has come back or has not responded to treatment, and whose cancer cells show certain changes that make them likely to respond to the study drugs. It tests four medicines together: dasatinib, venetoclax, dexamethasone, cyclophosphamide and cytarabine. The study is run by the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology.
Who can take part
- Aged between 1 and 18 at first diagnosis, and under 21 when joining the trial
- Able to carry out usual daily activities to at least half their normal level (measured by play or performance scores)
- Parents or legal guardians give written permission, and young people give age-appropriate agreement, before any study tests are done
- Able to swallow capsules comfortably, or take the medicines as a liquid or through a feeding tube if needed
- Has had detailed laboratory testing of their cancer before joining the trial
- Cancer has specific changes (such as certain gene fusions like NUP214-ABL1 or ABL1 amplification) or shows a very strong response to dasatinib in laboratory tests
- Kidneys, liver and heart are working well enough (checked by blood tests, scans and heart traces)
- Certain time gaps must have passed since previous chemotherapy, radiotherapy, stem cell transplant, immunotherapy or major surgery — the study team can give exact details
Who may not be able to
- Pregnant or breastfeeding, or unwilling to use highly effective contraception during the trial and for 6 months after treatment ends
- Stomach or bowel problems that could stop oral medicines being absorbed properly
- Cancer has known changes that make venetoclax unlikely to work (certain BCL2 gene changes)
- Allergy or bad reaction to the study drugs or similar medicines
- Active hepatitis, HIV infection or any other uncontrolled infection, including a recent positive COVID-19 test without a later negative PCR test
- Previous treatment with dasatinib and venetoclax together (having either one alone is allowed)
- Taking certain medicines or herbal products that are not allowed with the study drugs — the team can advise
- Eaten grapefruit, Seville oranges or starfruit within 3 days before the first dose
- Ongoing moderate or worse side effects from previous cancer treatment (with some exceptions)
- Active graft versus host disease, or taking medicine to prevent or treat it after a bone marrow transplant; immunosuppression after a donor stem cell transplant within the last month
- Certain bone conditions present before the cancer diagnosis, such as osteogenesis imperfecta or rickets
- Active tuberculosis
- Another serious illness or being unable to follow the study procedures
What taking part involves
- • Dasatinib (a tablet taken by mouth)
- • Venetoclax (a tablet taken by mouth)
- • Dexamethasone (a steroid medicine)
- • Cyclophosphamide and cytarabine (chemotherapy medicines)
Time commitment: Not stated — ask the trial team about how long the trial lasts, how many hospital visits are needed and what taking part involves.
Plain-English summary (AI-generated) from registry data. Not eligibility advice — only the trial team can confirm whether you can take part. Use the eligibility checker to see how your health profile matches this trial.
- Type of study
- Testing a treatment
- Ages
- 1 Year to 21 Years
- Who
- All
- Number of participants
- 26
- Started
- 2025-10-01
- Last checked
- 2025-09
Plain English Summary
What is this study?
- • Testing a new treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia
- • Phase1/Phase2 - 26 participants
- • HEM-iSMART is a master protocol which investigates multiple investigational medicinal products in children, adolescents and young adults (AYA) with relapsed/refractory (R/R) ALL and LBL
Who can take part?
- • Ages 1 Year to 21 Years
- • Diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Where?
- • Bristol - Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
- • London - Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
- • Newcastle - Great North Children's Hospital
- • Sutton - Royal Marsden NHS Trust
This is a simplified summary. Always discuss with your doctor before making any decisions.
About This Trial
HEM-iSMART is a master protocol which investigates multiple investigational medicinal products in children, adolescents and young adults (AYA) with relapsed/refractory (R/R) ALL and LBL. Sub-protocol B is a phase I/II trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of dasatinib + venetocolax in combination with dexamethasone + Cyclophosphamide and cytarabine in children and AYA with R/R ped ALL/LBL whose tumor present with alterations in the MAPK/SRC pathway.
More detail
HEM-iSMART is a master protocol with sub-protocols. The overarching objective is that introducing targeted therapy using a biomarker driven approach for treatment stratification may improve the outcome of children with R/R acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and lymphoblastic lymphoma (LBL) It is characterized by a shared framework that allows for the investigation of multiple IMPs and generate pivotal safety and efficacy evidence within the sub-protocols to establish and define the benefits and risks of new treatments for children with R/R leukemia. Sub-protocol B within HEM-iSMART, is a phase I/II, multicenter, international, open-label clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK) and efficacy of dasatinib + venetoclax in combination with dexamethasone, cyclophosphamide and cytarabine in children, adolescents and young with R/R ALL and LBL. Patients with actionable alterations in the MAPK/SRC pathway will be eligible for sub-protocol B including but not limited to NUP214-ABL1 fusion or other ABL1 fusion, activating the kinase domain, or ABL1 amplification, or PDGFRβ-fusion with various fusion partners including but not limited to: AGGF1, DOCK2, SATB1, ETV6 and/or Patients showing a very deep ex-vivo dasatinib IC50 below 10 nM (only data generated in the Zurich Leukemia Research Laboratory Assay will be considered).
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Eligibility at a Glance
Key info
- Age: 1 Year - 21 Years
- Who can join: All genders
Biomarkers mentioned
What the study is looking for
- ✓Children between 1 year (≥ 12 months) and 18 years of age at the time of first diagnosis and less than 21 years at...
- ✓Performance status: Karnofsky performance status (for patients \>12 years of age) or Lansky Play score (for patients...
- ✓healthy organ:
- ✓kidney AND liver FUNCTION (Assessed within 48 hours prior to C1D1) :
- ✓kidney blood test ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age or calculated creatinine clearance as per the Schwartz...
Who cannot take part
- ✗Pregnancy or positive pregnancy test (urine or serum) in females of childbearing potential. Pregnancy test must be...
- ✗Breast feeding.
- ✗Patients whose tumor present known mutationts confering resistance to venetoclax (e.g. BCL2 mutations of venetoclax...
- ✗Known active viral hepatitis or known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or any other uncontrolled infection.
- ✗a. Additional specifications for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): i. Patients with a recent positive test for SARS-CoV-2...
See the full criteria
Where Is This Study? (4 UK sites)
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Bristol B52 8BJ, United Kingdom
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
London WC1N 2BH, United Kingdom
Great North Children's Hospital
Newcastle NE1 4LP, United Kingdom
Royal Marsden NHS Trust
Sutton SM2 5PT, United Kingdom
How to Get in Touch
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