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Cytarabine

  • Prescription medicine
  • Prescription only
  • Identity checked
  • Sources last checked 2026-09-04

This page shows what was measured, who it was measured in, and what that does not settle.

What Cytarabine does in the body

Remission induction in acute non-lymphocytic leukemia of adults and pediatric patients

From the FDA-approved label: VYXEOS (daunorubicin and cytarabine) liposome for injection is a liposomal formulation of daunorubicin and cytarabine at a fixed 1:5 molar ratio. The 1:5 molar ratio of daunorubicin:cytarabine has been shown to have synergistic effects at killing leukemia cells in vitro and in murine models. Daunorubicin has antimitotic and cytotoxic activity, which is achieved by forming complexes with DNA, inhibiting topoisomerase II activity, inhibiting DNA polymerase activity, affecting regulation of gene expression, and producing DNA-damaging free radicals. Cytarabine is a cell cycle phase-specific antineoplastic agent, affecting cells only during the S-phase of cell division.

What happened in people

RNAWiki has not yet published a reviewed conclusion for this use.

A fixed RNAWiki sentence

Where this came from

Wording RNAWiki always uses, not a finding about this substance.

No reviewed claim names a result for any goal on this record.

No source is stored against this line.

The limit that matters most

Not recorded.

Where it acts
Not recorded.
Kind of result
No result is published, so no kind of result applies yet
Supervision
Professional supervision is normally required. A regulator classifies this substance in a way that restricts how it is supplied.

What the registries record it as

  • The substance registry classes this as chemical.

    FDA substance registry · 04079A1RDZ · read 2026-08-29

Where each sentence above came from

No recorded sentence describes the change this makes in a way that stands on its own. The page opens with what it is taken for instead, and the recorded explanation follows below.

Shown as the opening line on this page.

No statement of the main limit is recorded.

The four opening statements run to 124 words.

Words this page uses

Four words worth knowing first

Chosen from what this page shows, with each one explained before the word it depends on.

Biomarker

A biomarker is a number from a test that stands in for something about health.

A picture of it, and where the picture fails

A biomarker is like a fuel gauge.

Where that stops being true. A gauge is wired to the tank. Many biomarkers are only loosely tied to health.

What people get wrong. A better number is read as a better life. Several medicines improved a number and helped nobody.

A measurable indicator used as a substitute for a clinical outcome of interest.

Placebo

A placebo is a dummy treatment given so the real one can be compared with it.

A picture of it, and where the picture fails

A placebo is like a blank control in an experiment.

Where that stops being true. A blank does nothing. People given a placebo often do get better.

What people get wrong. A placebo effect is read as imaginary. The improvement is measured and real.

An inactive intervention matched in appearance to the test intervention, used to control for non-specific effects.

Comparator

A comparator is whatever the treatment was measured against.

A picture of it, and where the picture fails

It is like the other runner in a race.

Where that stops being true. A race has one winner. A study can show both arms improved.

What people get wrong. Results are read without asking what the other group got. Beating nothing is not beating a treatment.

The control condition against which the experimental intervention is assessed.

What happened in peopleRead from sources, not yet reviewed

What happened in people

Each card is one study: the exact question it asked, who was in it, and whether it showed what it set out to show.

Disease Free Survival (DFS) in Average Risk (AR) Patients Based on the Methotrexate Dose Randomization

The study did not show it

Who was studied
NCT01190930
How many people
9350
Study design
Phase 3
Compared against
Not recorded for this study
Kind of result
Living longer, or avoiding a major event
What was found
Result not recorded on this page
Repeated elsewhere
Unreplicated

What this does not prove. A study that did not show an effect does not show that no effect exists anywhere.

The limits of this study, and where it came from

Main limit. No limitation is recorded for this study.

How far it carries. This study is recorded from the curated record, not from the registry match.

Form and route. Injection

Interval reported. Not recorded in this summary

Written into the record, not signed off as a reviewed claim.

  • openFDA Drugs@FDA · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA NDC Directory · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA SPL label · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • PubChem PUG-REST · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot

Disease free survival (DFS) in randomization eligible patients with higher risk features (SR-High) or standard risk average (SR-Avg) B-ALL patients based on randomization with addition of blinatumomab

The study did not show it

Who was studied
NCT03914625
How many people
6720
Study design
Phase 3
Compared against
Not recorded for this study
Kind of result
Living longer, or avoiding a major event
What was found
Result not recorded on this page
Repeated elsewhere
Unreplicated

What this does not prove. A study that did not show an effect does not show that no effect exists anywhere.

The limits of this study, and where it came from

Main limit. No limitation is recorded for this study.

How far it carries. This study is recorded from the curated record, not from the registry match.

Form and route. Injection

Interval reported. Not recorded in this summary

Written into the record, not signed off as a reviewed claim.

  • openFDA Drugs@FDA · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA NDC Directory · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA SPL label · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • PubChem PUG-REST · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot

Event-free survival

The study did not show it

Who was studied
NCT01117441
How many people
6136
Study design
Phase 3
Compared against
Not recorded for this study
Kind of result
Living longer, or avoiding a major event
What was found
Result not recorded on this page
Repeated elsewhere
Unreplicated

What this does not prove. A study that did not show an effect does not show that no effect exists anywhere.

The limits of this study, and where it came from

Main limit. No limitation is recorded for this study.

How far it carries. This study is recorded from the curated record, not from the registry match.

Form and route. Injection

Interval reported. Not recorded in this summary

Written into the record, not signed off as a reviewed claim.

  • openFDA Drugs@FDA · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA NDC Directory · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA SPL label · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • PubChem PUG-REST · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot

Post-induction 5-year event-free survival (EFS)

The study did not show it

Who was studied
NCT03959085
How many people
5951
Study design
Phase 3
Compared against
Not recorded for this study
Kind of result
Living longer, or avoiding a major event
What was found
Result not recorded on this page
Repeated elsewhere
Unreplicated

What this does not prove. A study that did not show an effect does not show that no effect exists anywhere.

The limits of this study, and where it came from

Main limit. No limitation is recorded for this study.

How far it carries. This study is recorded from the curated record, not from the registry match.

Form and route. Injection

Interval reported. Not recorded in this summary

Written into the record, not signed off as a reviewed claim.

  • openFDA Drugs@FDA · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA NDC Directory · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA SPL label · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • PubChem PUG-REST · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot

DFS of Non-DS HR Post-induction Patients Receiving Intrathecal (IT) Methotrexate (MTX) Compared With Patients Receiving Intrathecal Triple Therapy (ITT) on a Modified Berlin-Frankfurt-Munster (MBFM) Interim Maintenance High-dose Methotrexate Backbone

The study did not show it

Who was studied
NCT02883049
How many people
5949
Study design
Phase 3
Compared against
Not recorded for this study
Kind of result
A number that stands in for health
What was found
Result not recorded on this page
Repeated elsewhere
Unreplicated

What this does not prove. A study that did not show an effect does not show that no effect exists anywhere.

The limits of this study, and where it came from

Main limit. No limitation is recorded for this study.

How far it carries. This study is recorded from the curated record, not from the registry match.

Form and route. Injection

Interval reported. Not recorded in this summary

Written into the record, not signed off as a reviewed claim.

  • openFDA Drugs@FDA · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA NDC Directory · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA SPL label · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • PubChem PUG-REST · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot

Event-free Survival (EFS) for SR-Average ALL Patients

The study did not show it

Who was studied
NCT00103285
How many people
5377
Study design
Phase 3
Compared against
Not recorded for this study
Kind of result
Living longer, or avoiding a major event
What was found
Result not recorded on this page
Repeated elsewhere
Unreplicated

What this does not prove. A study that did not show an effect does not show that no effect exists anywhere.

The limits of this study, and where it came from

Main limit. No limitation is recorded for this study.

How far it carries. This study is recorded from the curated record, not from the registry match.

Form and route. Injection

Interval reported. Not recorded in this summary

Written into the record, not signed off as a reviewed claim.

  • openFDA Drugs@FDA · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA NDC Directory · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA SPL label · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • PubChem PUG-REST · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
What we know
RNAWiki holds 6 written-up human studies for this substance, each with the question it asked.
How we know it
Each card names the study, the number of people and what the study set out to measure.
What this does not prove
These summaries were written by a person and have not been signed off as reviewed claims.
Why it matters
A study that failed is as informative as one that worked, and both are here.
What we still do not know
No reviewed claim exists, so no exact population, effect size or interval is published yet.

What is missing or unclearRead from sources, not yet reviewed

Were people like you studied?

RNAWiki cannot tell whether a study fits you. It can show who was in it, and where the result stops carrying.

Who was studied

People similar to this profile were included.

  • Cytarabine Injection in combination with other approved anti-cancer drugs is indicated for remission induction in acute non-lymphocytic leukemia of adults and pediatric patients. It has also been found useful in the treatment of acute non-lymphocytic leukemia and the blast phase of chronic myelocytic leukemia.

Who is missing from the studies

  • Which groups were under-represented in the studies has not been recorded for this substance. Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, and people with liver or kidney conditions are commonly excluded from trials; nothing here says whether they were.

What the label states about particular groups

  • On people who are breastfeeding, the label states: “It is not known whether this drug is excreted in human milk.”

    US prescribing information · 90f5c7ab-9f15-487d-ba69-ee4107434bcc · read 2026-08-30

Where the result stopped carrying

  • This is a scope explorer, not a diagnosis engine.
  • It shows who was studied so you can see whether people similar to you were included.

RNAWiki cannot tell whether a study fits you. It can show who was in it.

What it would be like to takeRead from sources, not yet reviewed

Why it might seem to do nothing

A real effect and a noticed effect are different things. These are the recorded reasons the two come apart.

It was studied in different people

The people in the studies were not much like the reader.

On this record: Which groups were under-represented in the studies has not been recorded for this substance. Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, and people with liver or kidney conditions are commonly excluded from trials; nothing here says whether they were.

The evidence may simply be wrong

Small early studies often do not hold up.

On this record: RNAWiki has not yet published a reviewed conclusion for this use.

Other reasons RNAWiki checked and found nothing for (11)
It was studied for a different goal
The studies measured something else entirely. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
A different form was studied
The studied form is not the form on the shelf. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
There was nothing to correct
Where a level is already normal, topping it up may change nothing. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
Something else had to happen too
In the studies it was paired with training, a diet or another treatment. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
The change is too small to feel
A real change can still sit below what a person notices. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
Day-to-day swing hides it
Sleep, food, stress and time of day move most numbers more than this would. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
Not enough time yet
The studies ran longer than the person has waited. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
It was not taken as studied
Missed days change the result, and studies count them. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
Something else changed at the same time
Two changes at once cannot be told apart afterwards. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
The product may not be what it says
Contents of a sold product are not always what the label states. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
No recorded reason
RNAWiki has nothing stored that would explain it. Nothing in this record points to this reason.

None of these is a reason to take more. Taking more is not a step this page ever suggests.

What it would be like to takeRead from sources, not yet reviewed

What taking it involves

The recorded facts about getting hold of it and using it. Nothing here is a suggestion about what you should do.

How it is supplied

Prescription only

Quoted from a source

Where this came from

Copied from a source RNAWiki stored, with the source named.

Read from the recorded approval status.

No source is stored against this line.

Form and route

Injection

Source-linked record

Where this came from

A person wrote this into the record with the study named beside it. No reviewer has signed it off.

The form and route recorded on this substance.

No source is stored against this line.

Who oversees it

Professional supervision is normally required. A regulator classifies this substance in a way that restricts how it is supplied.

Quoted from a source

Where this came from

Copied from a source RNAWiki stored, with the source named.

Suppression classes recorded: S1, S4, S6.

No source is stored against this line.

What is in the pack

Sold as injectable, injectable, powder, injectable, liposomal, given by the injection, injection, intravenous route.

Source-linked record

Where this came from

A person wrote this into the record with the study named beside it. No reviewer has signed it off.

Recorded notes on how this is sold and what that means for what is in the pack.

No source is stored against this line.

Where it is registered

Regulatory records are listed in the technical disclosure at the foot of this page.

Counted from records

Where this came from

A count of rows RNAWiki holds. It describes our records, not your body.

Register entries are stored per jurisdiction and shown with their dates.

No source is stored against this line.

Why people stop

Not recorded.

Nothing recorded

Where this came from

RNAWiki holds nothing here and says so rather than guessing.

No record of why people stopped taking it is stored for this substance.

No source is stored against this line.

What it would be like to takeNothing found in the sources checked

What can go wrong

Sorted by where each line came from. A regulator's label and a report somebody sent in are not the same kind of fact.

Nothing found in the sources checked

No harm is recorded against this substance in the sources RNAWiki checked. Finding nothing is not the same as showing there is nothing.

The sources listed were searched and held nothing. That is not the same as nothing existing.

Over a long time. No completed tested study window is recorded, so long-term effects are not established by the registry record.

Groups the studies covered thinly. Which groups were under-represented in the studies has not been recorded for this substance. Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, and people with liver or kidney conditions are commonly excluded from trials; nothing here says whether they were.

What is missing or unclearRead from sources, not yet reviewed

Does the exact form matter?

Evidence belongs to the exact thing that was tested. A different salt, a different mixture or a different preparation is a different question.

The form that was studied

Injection

Source-linked record

Where this came from

A person wrote this into the record with the study named beside it. No reviewer has signed it off.

The form used in the studies cited on this page.

No source is stored against this line.

What is sold

Not recorded.

Nothing recorded

Where this came from

RNAWiki holds nothing here and says so rather than guessing.

Nothing further is recorded about which forms are sold.

No source is stored against this line.

What is recorded as being sold

  • 19 products list this as an active ingredient in the United States drug directory. 18 of them contain it and nothing else.

    FDA National Drug Code directory · 71288-109 · read 2026-08-29

  • They are sold as injection, powder, lyophilized, for suspension, injection, solution and powder, taken intrathecal, intravenous and subcutaneous.

    FDA National Drug Code directory · 71288-109 · read 2026-08-29

  • The regulator's established pharmacologic class for it is nucleic acid synthesis inhibitors [moa] and nucleoside metabolic inhibitor [epc].

    FDA National Drug Code directory · 71288-109 · read 2026-08-29

  • 15 published labels name it as an active ingredient. 14 of them describe this substance alone, which is where its own label text on this page comes from.

    US prescribing information · 90f5c7ab-9f15-487d-ba69-ee4107434bcc · read 2026-08-29

  • Those labels are classed as human prescription drug.

    US prescribing information · 90f5c7ab-9f15-487d-ba69-ee4107434bcc · read 2026-08-29

  • cytarabine is intrathecal at HOW SUPPLIED Cytarabine Injection is available as follows: NDC Cytarabine Injection (20 mg per mL) Package Factor 25021-229-05 100 mg per 5 mL Single-Dose Vial 5 vials per carton Storage Conditions Store at 20º to 25ºC…, recorded as fda label in effect 2023-05-31 in the United States.

    US prescribing information · 90f5c7ab-9f15-487d-ba69-ee4107434bcc · read 2026-08-30

Evidence carries across two names for one substance. It does not carry across a salt, a mirror form or a mixture.

What it would be like to takeRead from sources, not yet reviewed

What you could measure

This one is decided with a clinician, so this section holds questions to ask rather than a plan to run.

Self-experiment planning is not offered for a prescription or clinician-supervised medicine. The questions below are for a clinician or pharmacist.

Questions worth asking

  • Which of the trials of Cytarabine studied people like me?
  • What was measured, and for how long?
  • Was the result a laboratory value or a health outcome?
  • What would we watch for, and when would we stop?

Tracking can show whether something changed for you. It cannot show what caused it.

RNAWiki records evidence. It does not say whether this substance is right for you.

What is missing or unclearRead from sources, not yet reviewed

What nobody knows yet

Open questions, each with why it is open and what would close it.

Missing populations

Which groups were under-represented in the studies has not been recorded.

Why it matters. Recorded by the evidence model as a gap on this record.

What would answer it

A study that measures it, and a reviewer to sign it off.

Last checked 2026-09-04. Searched: The sources listed in the receipts at the foot of this page.

Missing long-term data

No completed tested study window is recorded.

Why it matters. Recorded by the evidence model as a gap on this record.

What would answer it

A study that measures it, and a reviewer to sign it off.

Last checked 2026-09-04. Searched: The sources listed in the receipts at the foot of this page.

No reviewed conclusion

RNAWiki has not yet published a reviewed conclusion for this use.

Why it matters. Recorded by the evidence model as a gap on this record.

What would answer it

A study that measures it, and a reviewer to sign it off.

Last checked 2026-09-04. Searched: The sources listed in the receipts at the foot of this page.

Missing interaction studies

No interaction was found in the registers checked. Not finding one is not the same as showing there is none.

Why it matters. Recorded by the evidence model as a gap on this record.

What would answer it

A study that measures it, and a reviewer to sign it off.

Last checked 2026-09-04. Searched: The sources listed in the receipts at the foot of this page.

Formulation uncertainty

Several salts, forms or products of Cytarabine are recorded. Results from one form may not transfer to another.

Why it matters. Recorded by the evidence model as a gap on this record.

What would answer it

A study that measures it, and a reviewer to sign it off.

Last checked 2026-09-04. Searched: The sources listed in the receipts at the foot of this page.

Mechanism not reviewed

No reviewed mechanism story exists for this substance.

Why it matters. Recorded by the evidence model as a gap on this record.

What would answer it

A study that measures it, and a reviewer to sign it off.

Last checked 2026-09-04. Searched: The sources listed in the receipts at the foot of this page.

What happened in peopleRead from sources, not yet reviewed

Check any of this yourself

Every line above traced back to the study it came from. This is the technical layer, and the vocabulary changes here.

How many documents were read

  • 14 documents were read for this substance.

    RNAWiki source record

  • 14 of them state the same halfLife, and they agree.

    RNAWiki source record

Where else this substance is registered

FDA substance identifier (UNII)
04079A1RDZ
RxNorm concept
1731355

Checks this page had to pass

  • Passed

    Identity resolved

    no open identity hold

  • Passed

    No unresolved merge across substance families

    no quarantine open

  • Passed

    Every public sentence names a source

    The opening statement carries the origin: Written into the record, not signed off.

  • Not passed

    Trial roles classified for highlighted evidence

    No registered study is classified as testing this substance.

  • Passed

    No internal keys in reader text

    enforced by the copy-contract test over the rendered page

  • Passed

    Safety mode resolved

    Suppression classes recorded: S1, S4, S6.

  • Passed

    Canonical metadata present

    slug and display name present

What is missing or unclearRead from sources, not yet reviewed

How this medicine reached us

Kept near the foot of the page. A historical event moves up only when it changes something about this substance today.

  1. Withdrawn, in European Union; no reason is published (EMA Medicine.csv)

What the approval register records

  • 24 approved applications cover products containing this substance. The earliest was NDA016793, approved 19690617 to TEVA PARENTERAL.

    Drugs@FDA application register · NDA016793 · read 2026-08-29

  • Marketing status on the register: discontinued and prescription.

    Drugs@FDA application register · NDA016793 · read 2026-08-29

  • The earliest marketing start date recorded for a listed product is 19860101.

    FDA National Drug Code directory · 71288-109 · read 2026-08-29

What is missing or unclearRead from sources, not yet reviewed

What to learn next

Ordered by what would most change how you read this page, starting with what is easiest to misunderstand.

This order is fixed in code and does not count clicks or time on the page.

What is not here

9 questions this page could not answer

These sections were prepared and left out because there was nothing to put in them. They are listed rather than hidden, so the gaps in this record are visible.

  • What was measured, goal by goal — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • How close this is to real life — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • The path through the body — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • Felt, measured, or meaningful — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • How long anything takes — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • What it may clash with — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • Other ways to the same goal — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • Claims that go past the evidence — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • What changed on this page — found nothing in the sources checked.

The record as stored

The full record, for auditing

Everything above is built from what is below. This layer keeps the technical vocabulary, record identifiers and every stored row, so a reader who wants to check the page can.

Recorded evidence blocks (11)

On the Cytarabine label: indicated for what?


"Cytarabine Injection in combination with other approved anti-cancer drugs is indicated for remission induction in acute non-lymphocytic leukemia of adults and pediatric patients. It has also been found useful in the treatment of acute lymphocytic leukemia and the blast phase of chronic myelocytic leukemia.": indications and usage on Cytarabine's label. DailyMed label · 277597b0-7d85-40a3-a34a-70c6a883fc6d · 2026-08-11

1058 registered trials of Cytarabine — at which phases?


Registered studies posting no result
743 of 1058

1058 registered studies of Cytarabine: 600 phase2, 320 phase1, 207 phase3, 46 na, 29 phase4, 7 na or unstated, 5 early phase1. CLINICALTRIALS_SNAPSHOT · 2026-09-01

1697 with a PubMed record

Show the evidence
  • phase2
    600
  • phase1
    320
  • phase3
    207
  • na
    46
  • phase4
    29
  • na or unstated
    7
11 more recorded rows
  • early phase1
    5
  • completed
    547
  • unknown
    128
  • terminated
    120
  • recruiting
    115
  • active not recruiting
    73
  • withdrawn
    46
  • not yet recruiting
    23
  • enrolling by invitation
    3
  • suspended
    2
  • no longer available
    1

recorded 2026-09-01 · last checked 2026-09-04

148 of Cytarabine's trials stopped: safety, futility/efficacy, accrual/recruitment, funding/business, sponsor decision unspecified, other?


safety (12), futility/efficacy (4), accrual/recruitment (52), funding/business (21), sponsor decision unspecified (7) and other (52): Cytarabine's stop wording, clustered. CLINICALTRIALS_SNAPSHOT · 2026-09-01

"PI left institution"; 148 of 1058 registered studies

Show the evidence

Trial

  • NCT00002761
    withdrawn; "PI left institution"
  • NCT00003405
    withdrawn; "No enrollment"
  • NCT00003407
    withdrawn; "The P.I deceased."
  • NCT00003729
    terminated; "low accrual"
  • NCT00004114
    withdrawn; "Study never opened"
  • NCT00004878
    withdrawn; "study never opened"
14 further recorded trials
  • NCT00005998
    withdrawn; "Withdrawn because study never enrolled patients"
  • NCT00023920
    terminated; "Administratively complete."
  • NCT00074165
    terminated; "Lack of accrual"
  • NCT00096148
    terminated; "Administratively complete."
  • NCT00124644
    terminated; "Withdrawn due to "toxicity" problems"
  • NCT00126191
    terminated; "closed due to slow accrual"
  • NCT00275106
    terminated; "Withdrawn due to an excess of toxic deaths"
  • NCT00310128
    withdrawn; "Drug supply unavailable"
  • NCT00335140
    terminated; "slow accrual"
  • NCT00411281
    withdrawn; "Per Group Chair: This study will not move forward."
  • NCT00439296
    terminated; "The study was stopped due to poor accrual and lack of funding."
  • NCT00480987
    terminated; "Lack of support."
  • NCT00503880
    terminated; "Genzyme discontinued Funding"
  • NCT00505921
    terminated; "Slow Accrual."

recorded 2026-09-01 · last checked 2026-09-04

Human studies of Cytarabine used Idarubicin(8mg/m2) and cytosine arabinoside — over how long?


studies of Cytarabine used the recorded amount. ClinicalTrials.gov · 2026-09-01

3 recorded entries; human; also "Idarubicin(8mg/m2) and cytosine arabinoside", "Idarubicin(10mg/m2), cytosine arabinoside", "Cytarabine(intermediate-dose:d1-d4100mg/m2/day, d5-d7 1g/m2)"

Show the evidence

human

  • NCT02277847
    Idarubicin(8mg/m2) and cytosine arabinoside
  • NCT02277847
    Idarubicin(10mg/m2), cytosine arabinoside
  • NCT05941585
    Cytarabine(intermediate-dose:d1-d4100mg/m2/day, d5-d7 1g/m2)

recorded 2026-09-01 · last checked 2026-09-04

Cytarabine's half-life is 10 minutes — which schedules were studied?


10 minutes, the half-life Cytarabine's label states: "There is an initial distributive phase with a half-life of about 10 minutes, followed by a second elimination phase with a half-life of about 1 to 3 hours." DailyMed label · 277597b0-7d85-40a3-a34a-70c6a883fc6d · 2026-08-11

Show the evidence
  • half life clinical_pharmacology
    10 minutes; There is an initial distributive phase with a half-life of about 10 minutes, followed by a second elimination phase with a half-life of about 1 to 3 hours.
  • metabolism clinical_pharmacology
    Cellular Resistance and Sensitivity Cytarabine is metabolized by deoxycytidine kinase and other nucleotide kinases to the nucleotide triphosphate, an effective inhibitor of DNA polymerase; it is inactivated by a pyrimidine nucleoside deaminase, which converts it to the non-toxic uracil derivative.

recorded 2026-08-11 · last checked 2026-09-04

Which running trial of Cytarabine could settle lifespan?


NCT04547049 measures Overall survival (OS), reading out 2026-04-01.

70 open trials; n 232; "A Study Comparing Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantations (HSCTs) From Young Non-first-degree and Older First-degree Donors in Hematological Malignancies"

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Trial

  • NCT04547049
    "A Study Comparing Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantations (HSCTs) From Young Non-first-degree and Older First-degree Donors in Hematological Malignancies"; n 232; "Overall survival (OS)"; 2026-04-01
  • NCT04217278
    "A Trial of Treatments to Assess the Effects on Outcome of Adults With AML and MDS Undergoing Allogeneic SCT"; n 333; "Overall survival (all randomisations)"; 2026-05
  • NCT02205762
    "LCH-IV, International Collaborative Treatment Protocol for Children and Adolescents With Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis"; n 1400; "Percentage of Patients with Reactivation Free Survival"; 2026-07
  • NCT02101853
    "Blinatumomab in Treating Younger Patients With Relapsed B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia"; n 669; "Disease Free Survival (DFS) of High-risk (HR) and Intermediate-risk (IR) Relapse Patients"; 2026-09-16
  • NCT02112916
    "Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Bortezomib in Treating Younger Patients With Newly Diagnosed T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia or Stage II-IV T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma"; n 847; "Event-free Survival (EFS) for Modified Augmented Berlin-Frankfurt-Munster Backbone With or Without Bortezomib in All Randomized Patients"; 2026-09-16
  • NCT03701308
    "Daunorubicin and Cytarabine With or Without Uproleselan in Treating Older Adult Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia Receiving Intensive Induction Chemotherapy"; n 267; "Event-free Survival (EFS)"; 2026-10-26
14 further recorded trials
  • NCT02877303
    "Blinatumomab, Inotuzumab Ozogamicin, and Combination Chemotherapy as Frontline Therapy in Treating Patients With B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia"; n 80; "Relapse-free survival (RFS)"; 2026-11-01
  • NCT02443077
    "Ibrutinib Before and After Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma"; n 94; "24-month Progression-free Survival (PFS), Defined as the Proportion of Patients Who Are Alive and Progression-free 2 Years From Randomization"; 2026-12-23
  • NCT05506410
    "A Clinical Study of Hanlikang and BTK Inhibitors in the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Mantle Cell Lymphoma"; n 100; "progression free survival(PFS)"; 2026-12-30
  • NCT04216524
    "Venetoclax, SL-401, and Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm"; n 40; "Progression free survival (PFS)"; 2026-12-31
  • NCT00792948
    "Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Donor Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia"; n 97; "Relapse-free Survival (RFS) After Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation"; 2027-01-06
  • NCT02003222
    "Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Blinatumomab in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed BCR-ABL-Negative B Lineage Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia"; n 488; "Overall Survival (OS) Among Patients Who Were MRD Negative After Induction and Intensification Chemotherapy"; 2027-02-25
  • NCT03182244
    "A Study of ASP2215 Versus Salvage Chemotherapy In Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) With FMS-like Tyrosine Kinase 3 (FLT3) Mutation"; n 276; "Overall Survival (OS)"; 2027-03-31
  • NCT07187193
    "Efficacy and Safety of Low-Dose Cytarabine Combined With Thalidomide in Adult Patients With Untreated LCH"; n 50; "Event-Free Survival (EFS)"; 2027-04-13
  • NCT02835222
    "Selinexor With Combination With Induction/Consolidation Therapy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients"; n 57; "Overall survival"; 2027-04-18
  • NCT03125642
    "Auto Stem Cell Transplant for Lymphoma Patients"; n 150; "Progression Free Survival Comparison"; 2027-04-30
  • NCT01511562
    "Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Autologous Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With Central Nervous System B-Cell Lymphoma"; n 113; "Progression Free Survival"; 2027-05-02
  • NCT03206671
    "Treatment Protocol of the NHL-BFM and the NOPHO Study Groups for Mature Aggressive B-cell Lymphoma and Leukemia in Children and Adolescents"; n 650; "Event-free survival (EFS)"; 2027-06
  • NCT03897127
    "Study of Standard Intensive Chemotherapy Versus Intensive Chemotherapy With CPX-351 in Adult Patients With Newly Diagnosed AML and Intermediate- or Adverse Genetics"; n 882; "Overall survival (OS) in the restricted set of de novo patients"; 2027-06
  • NCT02521493
    "Response-Based Chemotherapy in Treating Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Myelodysplastic Syndrome in Younger Patients With Down Syndrome"; n 280; "Event-free Survival (EFS)"; 2027-06-30

Which 261 trials of Cytarabine posted no result?


Posted no result
261 of 261 completed trials
Registrations
NCT00000703, NCT00000689, NCT00000658, NCT00001048, NCT00000801 and NCT00002674, and 255 more
Completion dates
oldest 1990-03; newest 2024-07
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Trial

  • NCT00000703
    1990-03
  • NCT00000689
    1991-03
  • NCT00000658
    1996-02
  • NCT00001048
    1997-04
  • NCT00000801
    1998-04
  • NCT00002674
    2000-03
14 further recorded trials
  • NCT00002502
    2000-05
  • NCT00002691
    2000-06
  • NCT00004215
    2000-08
  • NCT00074191
    2000-10
  • NCT00002818
    2001-02
  • NCT00004192
    2001-03-16
  • NCT00003079
    2001-05
  • NCT00199069
    2001-05
  • NCT00002865
    2001-08
  • NCT00003957
    2001-08
  • NCT00003239
    2001-10
  • NCT00002833
    2002-04
  • NCT00018954
    2002-10
  • NCT00002471
    2003-01

At the median, Cytarabine's trials enrolled 53 people — anything larger?


Median enrolment
53
Largest enrolment
9350
Registered trials counted
1013

What do 39 spontaneous reports say about Cytarabine — and not say?


These are reports people sent to a regulator. They do not show the medicine caused the reaction. Nobody counted how many people took the medicine and reported nothing. The same event can be reported more than once, and many reports are incomplete. News coverage, lawsuits and new warnings change how often people report. A count is not a rate and not a risk.

Cytarabine appears in spontaneous reports to regulators. Across the 5 most-reported reaction terms, 39 reaction mentions were counted: bone marrow failure 25; white blood cell count decreased 6; myelosuppression 4; granulocyte count decreased 2. FAERS via Open Targets · CHEMBL1256472 · 2026-06-24

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  • bone marrow failure
    25
  • white blood cell count decreased
    6
  • myelosuppression
    4
  • granulocyte count decreased
    2
  • aplasia
    2

recorded 2026-06-24 · last checked 2026-09-04

Which 5 reactions does Cytarabine's label not list?


aplasia, bone marrow failure and granulocyte count decreased and 2 more reported for Cytarabine, absent from its label. FAERS via Open Targets · CHEMBL1256472 · 2026-06-24

3 label terms; 5 reported and unlisted; 277597b0-7d85-40a3-a34a-70c6a883fc6d

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  • aplasia
    count not stated
  • bone marrow failure
    count not stated
  • granulocyte count decreased
    count not stated
  • myelosuppression
    count not stated
  • white blood cell count decreased
    count not stated

recorded 2026-06-24 · last checked 2026-09-04

Where do the label and the trials disagree about Cytarabine?


"withdrawn" against "approved": withdrawal status vs register status for Cytarabine.

EMA_MEDICINE_REGISTER, Drugs@FDA; 1 recorded pair

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  • EMA_MEDICINE_REGISTER EMEA/H/C/000317
    withdrawn; 2026-09-04
  • Drugs@FDA ANDA206189
    approved; 2026-08-28
Where it is registered

Where it’s registered

Withdrawn, in European Union; no reason is published (EMA Medicine.csv)

Identifiers, relations and other names

The exact record

ChEMBL id
CHEMBL1256472
PubChem CID
6252
CAS number
69-74-9
RxCUI
3041
InChIKey
UHDGCWIWMRVCDJ-CCXZUQQUSA-N
Also called
CYTARABINE HYDROCHLORIDE, Arabinocytosine, Arabinosyl cytosine, Ara-c, Ara-cytidine, Aracytidine, Aracytin, Aracytine, Citarabina, Cytarabine liposome, Cytarabinoside, Cytarabinum
Salt form
Cytarabine hcl, Cytosine arabinoside hydrochloride
Development code
NSC-63878, U-19920A, NSC-287459, U-19,920, U-19920
Trade name
Alexan, Alexan 100, Cytarabine component of vyxeos, Cytosar, Cytosar-u, Depocyt, Depocyte, Tarabine pfs, Cytosar-U / Depocyt
Sources (7)

Sources

1 more source

ClinicalTrials.gov — US Government work · EMA medicine register · Open Targets 26.06 — CC0 · mixed register set; per-register licences in docs/specs/corpus-20k-sources.md · openFDA / DailyMed — US Government work

How these records are assembled · Which registers were checked

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  • source coverage passed: 7 source rows
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