Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Markers of Leukemia Stem Cells (CLL1 and CD45RA)

NCT06297551 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2025-06-26

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Summary

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a malignant disorder of the bone marrow and the most common form of acute leukemia in adults. Patient with AML have the shortest survival compared to other forms of leukemia. In the past 6 years, several new therapies have been approved.

Biomarkers are in urgent need to guide therapeutic regimen selection in order to maximize the benefit of available therapies and minimize treatment toxicity. Current standard practice is to perform bone marrow biopsy at end of treatment cycle (each cycle around 28 days), and based on bone marrow finding, to decide further treatment plan. It is invasive and time consuming.

In this study investigators will study whether tracking leukemia stem cells (LSC) in peripheral blood during early treatment cycle may provide a non-invasive method to predict therapeutic outcome at end of treatment cycle. A retrospective study found that LSC fractional change, defined by two LSC markers, named CLL1 and CD45RA, is highly correlated with therapeutic outcome. Further more, CLL1 and CD45RA positive LSC fraction demonstrates a high concordance between bone marrow and peripheral blood, offering the opportunity to track CLL1 and CD45RA positive LSC fraction non-invasively in peripheral blood during treatment.

This pilot study will allow the investigators to decide whether testing CLL1 and CD45RA positive LSC in peripheral blood during leukemia treatment is feasible in clinical practice. This result will lay the foundation for designing future trials using CLL1 and CD45RA positive LSC fractional change to optimize therapeutic strategy for patients with AML.

Conditions

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Quantification of blood cells positive for CLL1 and CD45RA surface markers by flow cytometry

During induction therapy for AML, researchers will measure the relative percentage of hematopoietic stem cells (defined by markers CD34+/CD38-) that test positive for CLL1 and CD45RA surface markers in the blood of participants on day 3, 5 and 7 days of systemic therapy. The variation of blood cells positivity for these markers, will be correlated with treatment outcome (complete response, partial response, no response), as determined by a bone marrow biopsy done approximately 4 weeks after induction chemotherapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Suhu Liu

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Suhu Liu, MD PhD · Stony Brook Medicine

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-05-17
Primary Completion
2026-05-31
Completion
2026-05-31

Countries

  • United States

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