Active clinical trials for "Leukemia"

Clinical validation of biomarkers determining resistance to BTK inhibition with Ibrutinib in Mantle Cell Lymphoma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Stage 1.

Patients with CML report on fatigue, and many of them report on sleep disturbances. The investigators wish to objectively assess the patient's sleep using a sleep "wrist watch" (Actigraph) , and correlate data with their perception of sleep quality. A matched participants group will serve as control. the Control group is defined as participants not having CML or any other malignancy and without any known sleep disturbances.

Children with clinically diagnosed leukemia may experience occult HBV infection after chemotherapy immunosuppressive therapy, which may affect the normal course of leukemia treatment. However, this is not caused by clinically relevant diagnosis and treatment measures but exists in vivo.

To assess the incidence of IDH1 and IDH2 mutations in adult AML patients, and to explore their associations with the patients' clinical, cytogenetic, and molecular characteristics as well as with treatment response and outcome. To delineate the similarities and distinctions among mutations at IDH1-R132, IDH2-R140 and IDH2-R172 in AML, both clinically and molecularly (including cytogenetics, immunophenotyping, mutation co-occurrence patterns). The results can be references for future selection of targeted therapy (targeting IDH mutant proteins).

The study aims to detect pattern of expression of PHF19 gene and EZH2 gene deletion in acute myeloid leukemia patients and detect their prognostic role on patients outcome.

This will be a translational study without any therapeutic intervention, for the purpose of analyzing the diagnostic and molecular results / characterization of adult patients with AML, regardless of the treatment they receive. Newly diagnosed or relapsed/resistant AML patients will be included.

This study provides for the collection of a series composed by patients with newly diagnosed of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the period 1999-2011. This collection is carried out with retrospective investigation, through the review of paper and electronic records and data cards in large part already collected as part of study protocols "GIMEMA" or "BFM" or "NILG" approved by the Ethics Committee of Hospital. The purpose of data collection is to check with retrospective predictability of classical risk factors in relation to disease response, and overall survival of the event-free survival, to estimate the cumulative incidence of competitive events such as the emergence of disease, acute and chronic transplant, the transplant-related mortality and relapse of disease.

There are two regions in the adult brain that exhibit neuronal stem and progenitor cells, generating new neurons postnatally and throughout adulthood. One is the so called subventricular zone the other is the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. Adult neurogenesis is a physiological process representing an important functional impact for certain brain areas, especially the hippocampus. The hippocampal formation plays an important role in long-term memory and spatial navigation. Inhibition of adult neurogenesis in mice by chemotherapy or radiation is followed by significant deficits in hippocampal memory functions while hippocampus-independent memory is unaffected. Clinical trials had shown that chemotherapy and brain radiation lead to cognitive dysfunction. However, the exact mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are still unidentified. The aim of our study is to investigate, whether the inhibition of adult neural stem cell proliferation in the hippocampus by intrathecal chemotherapy and/or cerebral radiation is responsible for treatment induced memory deficits. We will investigate patients suffering from acute lymphatic leukaemia (ALL) that receive prophylactic intrathecal chemotherapy and brain irradiation. The study represents a longitudinal investigation including a virtual "humanized" version of the morris-water-maze to test hippocampus dependent spatial memory, as well as MR-imaging for morphological (volumetry) and biochemical (spectroscopy) data.

Establishment of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Data Base in the Department of Oncology

Adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment approaches relie on risk stratification, including cytogenetics. We want to study at diagnosis several blast cells parameters on frozen samples of GRAALL protocols enrolled patients: A CD45-DNA double staining analysed by flow cytometry will allow mesurement for each blastic clone of DNA ploidy, percentage of cells in S-phase, CD45 fluorescence index. The proteine P16 metabolic way, involved in cell cycle regulation, will be studied by Western Blot analysis. The comparison between these parameters, and main haematological data, will be followed by a prognostic analysis, based on blast corticosensibility in vivo, chimiosensibility, complete remission, and survival. Combination of the studied parameters will allow to appreciate a clonal diversity. This will help to predict, at diagnosis, high probability of resistance to treatment.