Melphalan, Prednisone, and Lenalidomide in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed 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 I multiple myeloma, stage II multiple myeloma, stage III multiple myeloma
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Diagnosis of multiple myeloma
- Newly diagnosed disease
- Requires treatment, in the judgment of the treating physician
- Not a candidate for (or patient declines) autologous stem cell transplantation
Meets 1 of the following criteria:
Measurable disease, defined by any of the following:
- Serum monoclonal protein ≥ 1 g/dL
- Urine protein monoclonal light chain ≥ 200 mg/24 hours by electrophoresis
- Measurable serum free light chains ≥ 10 mg/dL, kappa or lambda, AND κ/λ ratio is abnormal (if serum and urine are not measurable as defined above)
- Evaluable disease, defined as monoclonal bone marrow plasmacytosis ≥ 30%
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- ECOG performance status 0-3
- Life expectancy > 3 months
- ANC ≥ 1,500/mm³
- Bilirubin ≤ 2.0 mg/dL
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 3 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST ≤ 3 times ULN
- Creatinine ≤ 3.0 mg/dL
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm³
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use 2 effective methods of contraception, including ≥ 1 highly effective method, ≥ 4 weeks before and during study treatment
- No uncontrolled infection
- No peripheral neuropathy ≥ grade 2
- No serious medical condition, laboratory abnormality, or psychiatric illness that would preclude study compliance
No other active malignancy except for nonmelanoma skin cancer or carcinoma in situ
- Prior malignancy allowed if treated with curative intent and is free of disease for a period appropriate for that cancer
- No known hypersensitivity to thalidomide
- No known HIV positivity
- No infectious hepatitis A, B or C
- No history of deep vein thrombosis or other medical condition requiring the use of warfarin
- Able to take daily prophylactic acetylsalicylic acid (81 or 325 mg)
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- See Disease Characteristics
- More than 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy for treatment of multiple myeloma
- No prior lenalidomide
- No other concurrent anticancer agents or treatments
- No concurrent steroids except prednisone ≤ 20 mg/day (or the equivalent) for concurrent illness or adrenal replacement therapy
- No other concurrent investigational therapy or agent for treatment of multiple myeloma
- No concurrent warfarin
Sites / Locations
- Mayo Clinic in Arizona
- Mayo Clinic in Florida
- Mayo Clinic
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
Treatment (Lenalidomide, Melphalan, Prednisone)
Intervention: Drug: lenalidomide Dose determined by Phase I treatment schedule. Taken orally days 1-21 every 28 days until progression Intervention: Drug: melphalan Dose determined by Phase I treatment schedule. Taken orally days 1-4 every 28 days until progression Intervention: Drug: prednisone 60mg/m^2, orally days 1-4 every 28 days until progression