Active clinical trials for "Lymphoma"

Treatment of adult patients with Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma (DLBCL), relapsed or refractory to previous CHOP-R (or CHOP-R like regimen) front line therapy, relapsed or refractory to second or subsequent salvage therapies which included high dose therapy with autologous stem cell support (ASCT). Treatment of adult patients with DLBCL relapsed or refractory to front line therapy with CHOP-R (or CHOP-R like regimen) or subsequent treatments, who are not consider eligible for ASCT consolidation because of age, co-morbidities, impossibility to perform ASCT. The trial is conducted according to the optimal two-stage design of Simon with alpha 0.05 and beta 0.10, considering the following two hypotheses: first a response rate (RR) less than 10% is of no further interest; and second, an RR 30% is clinically meaningful. In the initial stage, 18 patients have to enter onto the study. If less than 3 responses (</=2 in 18) will be observed, the trial would be terminated. Otherwise, accrual will continue to a total of a maximum of 35 patients. At the end of the trial, if 6 or fewer responses will occur among the 35 patients (</= 6 in 35), it will be concluded that the regimen is not worthy of further investigations for that group of patients. The treatment is divided in three phases: induction phase (course 1 to 6), consolidation phase (courses 7 to 12), maintenance phase (from course 13 until the end of therapy for any reason).

This is an open-label, multicenter study to characterize the safety and efficacy of the human anti-CD19 antibody MOR00208 in adult patients with relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) who have received at least 1 prior therapy containing rituximab (at least once).

This phase II trial studies how well giving fludarabine phosphate, melphalan, and low-dose total-body irradiation (TBI) followed by donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant (PBSCT) works in treating patients with hematologic malignancies. Giving chemotherapy drugs such as fludarabine phosphate and melphalan, and low-dose TBI before a donor PBSCT 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 healthy stem cells from the donor 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 cell from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), and methotrexate after transplant may stop this from happening

This study looks at what effects (good and bad) a drug called PXD-101 (belinostat) in combination with the radioactive drug Zevalin (yttrium Y 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan) has on patients with relapsed aggressive (high-risk) non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Studies in the laboratory suggest that drugs such as PXD101 can act upon specific cancer cell processes to cause either death of the cancer cells or prevention of their growth. In human studies with a small number of patients with this lymphoma, PXD-101 has shown the ability to shrink and slow tumor growth. When Zevalin is delivered directly to the tumor, the lymphoma cells are destroyed and this may result in the disappearance of the tumor (remission)

Immunotherapy with the monoclonal anti-CD20 antibody rituximab has become standard of care for patients with follicular lymphoma. However, there are still open questions regarding dosing and scheduling of rituximab, optimal type of chemotherapeutic combination partners during induction as well as the best interval and length of rituximab maintenance treatment. Fludarabine-mitoxantrone combinations have shown strong debulking activity as initial therapy followed by rituximab maintenance. While rituximab maintenance with a standard dose of 375 mg/m2 prolongs clinical remissions, administration schedules still vary: Three-monthly infusions for 2 years and two-monthly infusions for one or 2 years are most frequently used. A few pharmacokinetic data for rituximab have been reported for induction treatment. These studies have proposed a presumptive "active" level of 25.000 ng/ml in anti-lymphoma treatment. However, there is only limited information regarding maintenance treatment in patients who are in remission and have no remaining tumor load. The aim of this trial is to investigate the effect of treatment with oral Fludarabine, Mitoxantrone und Rituximab and Rituximab maintenance on the depth of remission measured by BCL2/IgH PCR.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate whether treatment with ibrutinib as a monotherapy results in a clinically significant improvement in progression free survival (PFS) as compared to treatment with ofatumumab in patients with relapsed or refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) or Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma (SLL)

This study is to determine first the appropriate dose of lenalidomide to administer in combination with fixed doses of obinutuzumab in relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma patients. In a second step, this study aims to determine the efficacy of this combination in 3 separate populations: relapsed/refractory aggressive lymphoma (diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and mantle cell lymphoma: cohort 1), relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma (cohort 2) and previously untreated follicular lymphoma (cohorts 3 and 4).

This study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of MabThera in combination chemotherapy, followed by maintenance treatment with MabThera. The anticipated time on study treatment is 1-2 years, and the target sample size is <100 individuals.

The choice of a preferred first-line treatment requires balancing the desire for optimal disease control with the occurrence of early and late treatment-related effects. To fully assess this balance, the treatment decision process should ideally take into account the outcome following a consistent second-line therapy, in particular when tolerated, widely applicable and highly effective salvage regimens exist, like in Hodgkin lymphoma failing initial chemotherapy.

This phase II trial studies how well sirolimus, cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil works in preventing graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) in patients with blood cancer undergoing donor peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplant. Giving chemotherapy and total-body irradiation before a donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It may also stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. When the healthy stem cells from a donor 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 total-body irradiation together with sirolimus, cyclosporine, and mycophenolate mofetil before and after transplant may stop this from happening.