Lenalidomide and Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma
Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Neoplasm
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Neoplasm focused on measuring stage II multiple myeloma, stage III multiple myeloma, refractory multiple myeloma
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Diagnosis of multiple myeloma (MM) meeting all of the following criteria:
- Relapsed or refractory disease
- Previously received ≥ 2 courses of antimyeloma treatment
- Measurable levels of myeloma paraprotein in serum (> 0.5 g/dL) or urine (> 0.2 g/24-hour urine collection) OR serum-free light-chain disease
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/mm^3
- Platelet count ≥ 75,000/mm^3
- Creatinine ≤ 2.5 mg/dL
- Bilirubin ≤ 2.0 mg/dL
- AST and ALT ≤ 3 times upper limit of normal
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use 2 methods of highly effective contraception ≥ 4 weeks before, during, and for 4 weeks after completion of study therapy
- No other malignancy within the past 5 years except treated basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or carcinoma in situ of the cervix or breast
- No serious medical condition, laboratory abnormality, or psychiatric illness that would preclude study treatment or put patient at unacceptable risk
No known hypersensitivity to thalidomide or lenalidomide
- No development of erythema nodosum in the presence of a reaction characterized by a desquamating rash while taking thalidomide or similar drugs
- No known hypersensitivity to any component of the pneumococcal polyvalent vaccine, including diphtheria toxin or CRM 197
- No known HIV positivity
- No infectious hepatitis type A, B, or C
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- See Disease Characteristics
- No more than 3 prior treatment regimens for MM
- More than 6 months since prior lenalidomide
- More than 28 days since prior experimental drug or therapy
- More than 1 month since prior systemic antimyeloma therapy
- More than 1 month since prior and no concurrent systemic corticosteroids
- No other concurrent anticancer agents or treatments or investigational agents
- No concurrent thalidomide
- No concurrent radiotherapy
- No other concurrent immune therapy or immunomodulatory agents
Sites / Locations
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
Group 1
Group 2
Patients receive oral lenalidomide on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 7 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients receive pneumococcal polyvalent vaccine intramuscularly (IM) 14 days prior to beginning lenalidomide and again in approximately 2 months (after the first dose of the vaccine).
Patients receive lenalidomide as in group 1. Patients receive pneumococcal polyvalent vaccine IM approximately 45 days after beginning lenalidomide and again in approximately 2 months (after the first dose of the vaccine).