Monitoring Minimal Residual Disease（MRD）in Pediatric B-acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Clinical Trial

Official title: A Study to Assess Minimal Residual Disease by Next-generation Sequencing of Immunoglobulin Gene Rearrangements in Pediatric B-acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aimed to investigate the performance of next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques measuring immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH)-variable, diversity, and joining (V[D]J) clonal rearrangements （IgH-V[D]J NGS） compared with flow cytometry (FCM) in detecting of minimal residual disease (MRD) for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with South Chinese Children Leukemia Group (SCCLG)-ALL 2016, and to predict the relapse of the disease in the early stage and to assess the prognosis, so as to provide the basis for early intervention treatment and reduce the hematological relapse and improve the survival rate.

Clinical Trial Description

The measurement of residual leukemia levels, "minimal residual disease" (MRD), during therapy has now emerged as the most important predictor the outcome in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). As a result, risk-classifications based on MRD assessment has become an essential part of determining disease risk and directing therapeutic approach for children and adults with ALL.

Recently, next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques measuring immunoglobulin (Ig) or T-cell receptor (TCR) clonal rearrangements as a method of detecting MRD have been introduced. These approaches expand the sensitivity of MRD detection to as high as 1 in 10,000,000 cells and have been shown to be predictive of relapse in children with ALL receiving standard chemotherapy.

In this study, the investigators will determine the sensitivity and specificity of IgH-V(D)J NGS and compared its capacity to measure MRD with that of flow cytometry using diagnostic and follow-up samples from more than 100 patients with ALL. Patients under age of 18 years with newly diagnosed ALL will be recruited and receive the treatment strategy of (SCCLG)-ALL 2016. After identifying a trackable clone in diagnostic samples (Baseline), MRD was measured using IgH-V(D)J NGS and FCM on bone marrow at 3 time-points: fifteen days after induction therapy (D15), thirty-three days after induction therapy (D33) and then at the end of induction therapy. Event-free survival (EFS), Relapse-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) were assessed. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• Leukemia
• Leukemia, Lymphoid
• Neoplasm, Residual
• Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma

• NCT number: NCT04977895
• Study type: Observational
• Source: Sun Yat-sen University
• Contact: Yi-Zhuo Zhang, MD
• Phone: 18622221239
• Email: zhangyzh@sysucc.org.cn
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: January 30, 2021
• Completion date: January 30, 2026