FindMyKOL
Clinical trialNCT00615784TerminatedPhase 2Interventional

Phase II Study of Bexarotene in Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia

SponsorAbramson Cancer Center at Penn MedicineEnrollment24Acute Myeloid Leukemia
View the registry record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the activity of bexarotene, a retinoic acid class drug, in patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) that has returned after or is resistant to standard chemotherapy or are otherwise not eligible for conventional chemotherapy. Retinoic acids are a class of drugs related to Vitamin A, and have a wide range of effects within normal and malignant cells that affect cell growth and cell death.
clinicaltrials.gov ↗

Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a FindMyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

A profile link is shown only when the registered name resolves to a person record with a confident, namesake-checked match; ambiguous names stay unlinked.

Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Abramson Cancer Center of University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Site investigator names are published by ClinicalTrials.gov only while a study recruits, so completed studies list sites without them.

Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Bexarotene →
Linked drugs open the directory filtered to KOLs working with them.clinicaltrials.gov ↗

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
25 May 2010
Primary completion
1 Oct 2013
Completion
8 Nov 2013
Last update posted
17 Dec 2020
Registered enrollment
24
Registry id
NCT00615784
clinicaltrials.gov ↗

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.