Active clinical trials for "Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell"

The purpose of this research study is to compare the survival rates of patients with better risk disease undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) to the survival rates reported in the medical literature of similar patients undergoing reduced intensity HSCT from matched related donors.

The overall purpose of the study was to determine if MEDI-551, when used in combination with salvage chemotherapy (bendamustine) in participants with relapsed or refractory CLL who are not eligible for Autologous Stem Cell Transplant (ASCT), had superior efficacy compared to rituximab in the same population.

This is a two-arm, open-label study to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and assess the safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and preliminary efficacy of BMN 673 in patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) and Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL). Arm 1 will enroll patients with either AML or MDS; Arm 2 will enroll patients with either CLL or MCL.

This study is designed to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics and preliminary efficacy of the anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody LFB-R603 in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia who have received at least one prior fludarabine-containing regimen.

RATIONALE: Giving chemotherapy before a donor umbilical cord blood transplant (UCBT) helps stop the growth of cancer and abnormal cells and helps stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. When the stem cells from an unrelated donor, that do not exactly match the patient's blood, are infused into the patient they may help the patient's bone marrow make stem cells, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving antithymocyte globulin before transplant and cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil after transplant may stop this from happening. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well donor umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant works in treating patients with hematologic malignancies.

Ofatumumab is an IgG1κ fully human monoclonal antibody (mAb) that specifically recognizes an epitope on the human differentiation antigen CD20 molecule. In vitro and in vivo studies demonstrated that ofatumumab depletes CD20 positive (CD20+) B cells through complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) and antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC), which results in the antitumour effect. This is an open-label study to evaluate safety, tolerability, efficacy and PK profile of ofatumumab monotherapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients. Ofatumumab will be administered intravenously at the first dose of 300mg followed by 7 weekly infusions of 2000mg, followed by 4 infusions of 2000mg at every 4 weeks. Primary objective of the study (Part A) is to evaluate tolerability, and the study (Part B) is to assess overall response rate in CLL population. 10 subjects will be enrolled into this study. Subjects will be followed for 48 weeks.

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and tolerability of BMS-936564 (MDX-1338) in relapsed Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and other selected B-cell cancers and to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of the drug alone in relapsed/refractory AML

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the drugs lenalidomide and ofatumumab in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

The risk of immunosuppression deters many patients from receiving fludarabine, while combination chemotherapy regimens are poorly tolerated by elderly or infirm chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients. Previous studies by our group and others have shown that rituximab is safe and well tolerated when used as a single agent in patients with CLL. In addition, maintenance therapy with rituximab was well tolerated by CLL patients, with probable prolongation of progression-free survival (Hainsworth et al. 2003). Based on pre clinical and clinical studies indicating possible increased efficacy of ofatumumab in patients with CLL, we wish to develop an antibody-only regimen for older patients and patients who refuse fludarabine-based regimens.

The purpose of this study was to confirm the clinical benefit observed in the pivotal registration study, Hx-CD20-406. The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) required that a randomized study be conducted in CLL patients with bulky fludarabine-refractory disease as a specific obligation for grant of conditional approval for ARZERRA™ in the European Union (EU). This study compared ofatumumab with the physicians' choice of therapy.