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‹ Fri · 16 Oct 2026
Novel or significantly improved treatment

First-In-Human Study of 211 At-CD45 Radioimmunotherapy With Nonmyeloablative Conditioning Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Adults With Hematologic Malignancies.

A new radioimmune therapy showed immediate cancer-killing activity in early human testing, though further work is needed to manage side effects safely.

This first-in-human phase 1 dose-finding trial evaluated Relapse is the dominant cause of failure after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) for aggressive hematologic malignancies. The authors report that in 45 adults, first-in-human astatine-211 anti-CD45 radioimmunotherapy showed immediate cytotoxic activity and could be incorporated into conditioning, although liver toxicity limited dosing.

What the study was

Study design
First-in-human phase 1 dose-finding trial
Sample size
45
Category
Treatment Innovation
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

Why it surfaced

9/10: First-in-human phase 1 dose-finding trial with direct relevance to Novel therapeutics: immunotherapy, CAR-T, targeted therapy; scoring remains conservative because triage used the PubMed abstract without full-text review.

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