Active clinical trials for "Lymphoma"

This is a single center pilot study of a non-myeloablative umbilical cord blood transplant for the treatment of a hematological malignancy with a single infusion of T regulatory (Treg) given shortly after UCB transplantation.

The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of treating relapsed follicular lymphoma with a combination of Bexxar and External Beam Radiotherapy (EBRT). Patients will receive EBRT (20 Gy in 10 fractions) followed by Bexxar.

Evaluation of CD4 in combination with CHO chemotherapy in subjects with nodal involvement of non cutaneous Tcell lymphoma.

Phase II study of rituximab plus MG4101 in patients with relapsed or refractory indolent CD20-positive non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) Investigator-Initiated Trials

This study will collect tumor samples from people with cancers of the blood, bone marrow, or lymph glands for laboratory study of the biology of these conditions. Such studies contribute to a better understanding of cancer biology and to the development of new treatments. Planned studies include: Examination of individual cancer cells and to search for differences compared to other types of cancer and normal cells Examination of the chromosomes and genes in cancer cells and to search for differences compared to other types of cancer and normal cells Development of sensitive methods to detect small amounts of cancer that remain after treatment Search for new cancer proteins that might serve as targets for treatment Investigation of methods to develop cancer vaccines. Patients from >= 1 to 75 years of age with acute lymphocytic leukemia, acute myelogenous leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, chronic myelogenous leukemia, juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and other hematologic malignancies may be eligible for this study. Blood or bone marrow samples will be collected when sampling is required for the patient's medical care. Cells from some individuals will be grown in test tubes, establishing cell lines or in animals, establishing xenograft models. (A xenograft is transplantation of cells of one species to another species.)

A randomized phase II study of prednisone, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and gemcitabine in patients with intermediate stage Hodgkin's lymphoma

Peripheral T cell lymphoma and advanced cutaneous T cell lymphomas are aggressive and refractory diseases that are generally treated with chemotherapy. Despite current treatment modalities, only a subset of patients will be cured by the treatment. In this study, four chemotherapeutic agents (L-asparaginase, Methotrexate, Doxil, and Prednisone) will be administered in a combination regimen for patients with relapsed or refractory Peripheral and/or advanced cutaneous T cell lymphoma. Each one of these individual drugs have been shown to have activity to lymphomas. The objective of the study is to determine if the combination of these chemotherapy agents results in higher response and cure rates in this patient population. This will be a single institutional study which will included 32 patients in the Peripheral T cell lymphoma group and 32 patients in the Cutaneous T cell lymphoma group.

This study seeks to determine the maximum tolerated dose of bortezomib in combination with rituximab, ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide for patients with relapsed or primary refractory aggressive B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (diffuse large B-cell, mantle cell, follicular grade III, transformed lymphoma). Subjects will be enrolled in cohorts of 3 at each bortezomib dose level, starting at 1 mg/m(2), and escalating to 1.3, 1.5, and 1.7 mg/m(2). Bortezomib will be given on days 1 (prior to rituximab) and 4, rituximab 375 mg/m(2)/day on days 2, 3, and 4 of a 21-day cycle. They will also receive filgrastim on days 6-13 or pegfilgrastim on day 6.

Lymphomas are a fairly common malignancy accounting for approximately half of all newly diagnosed hematological neoplasms, and they comprise the sixth most common group of malignancies worldwide in both men and women, With marked geographic variations and affecting more males than females within the age range of 1 to 85 years but peaking within the second decades of life (Oluwasola AO et al., 2011, Roman E et al., 2011 and Jemal A et al., 2010) . Lymphomas have traditionally been classified as either Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) based on the presence or absence of the Reed-Sternberg (RS) cell on histology. (Fitzmaurice C et al., 2017). Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHLs) comprise a wide class of lymphoid neoplasms that evolve from the clonal expansion of mature B, T and natural killer (NK) cells in different stages of development (Morton, L.M. et al., 2014 and Schmitz R et al., 2009). NHLs are the most prevalent hematopoietic neoplasms, accounting for approximately 4.3% of all cancer diagnoses (Sant, M. et al., 2010) , Of them, B cell NHL accounts for approximately 30% of all lymphoid neoplasms, followed by HL (8%) and T/NK neoplasms (5%) (Morton, L.M. et al., 2006). MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small, naturally occurring, noncoding and single-stranded RNA molecules (18, 22 nucleotides) that function as post-transcriptional regulators by directly cleaving target messenger RNA (mRNA) or translational repression (Bartel DP. Et al., 2004). The discovery of miRNA has exposed a new layer of gene expression regulation that affects many physiological and pathological processes of life (Lawrie CH. Et al., 2013). Many abnormal miRNA expression patterns are found in various human malignancies, and certain miRNAs play roles as oncogenes or tumor suppressors (Ling N et al., 2013). Certain miRNAs have been found to characterize various subtypes of NHL and have important roles in B-cell differentiation and lymphomagenesis (Zhang J et al., 2009, Malumbres R et al., 2009, Basso K et al., 2009 and Auer RL et al., 2011). Recently, many studies had shown that tumor cell-specific miRNAs were detectable in the plasma and serum of patients with cancer. Therefore, miRNAs may be served as good biomarkers for early detection, diagnosis, and follow up of patients with cancer (Cortez MA et al., 2012).

The purpose of this trial is to evaluate changes in immune activity relative to baseline following treatment with Toca 511 and Toca FC in patients with solid tumors (including recurrent high grade glioma [rHGG]) or lymphoma. This is a multicenter, open-label study of Toca 511 and Toca FC. Patients with advanced solid tumors or lymphoma, for whom curative options are not available, will be enrolled into the study, subject to all entry criteria. Tumors must be accessible to biopsy and/or resection. Patients will be qualified based on the presence of specific molecular characteristics, documented by Foundation Medicine (or equivalent) genomic profile report, and specific tumor types. Toca 511 will be administered by IV injection followed by (1) intratumoral injection following biopsy or (2) injection into the resection cavity wall following planned resection in the case of rHGG or brain metastases. Toca FC will be administered orally in cycles of therapy. Patients not undergoing resection of brain tumors will undergo 2 biopsies to allow assessment of baseline and follow-up immune activity in the tumor. Changes in immune activity in peripheral blood will be measured in all patients.