Active clinical trials for "Lymphoma"

This randomized phase II trial is studying two different combination chemotherapy regimens to compare how well they work in treating patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Cancer survivorship has become an important aspect of oncology research due to the risk of physical and psychosocial complications. These latter concerns 50 % of patients. So, the aim of this research is to measure frequency and intensity of one of these issues: the fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) in the lymphoma survivorship beginning, at M0.

Plerixafor, is added to mobilizing chemotherapy and G-CSF to overcome poor stem cell mobilization. We want to demonstrate that half of the commonly prescribed dose can be safely administered once as a single dose in first attempt leading to apheresis yields of >2 x 106 CD34+ cells/kg body weight.

Consolidation treatment for Primary Central Nervous System Diffuse Large B cell Lymphoma(PCNSL)patients remains to be defined.Here we designed a tolerated treatment of HDMTX plus Temozolomide,followed by consolidation with Temozolomide in PCNSL patients.

Central nervous system (CNS) relapses of aggressive lymphomas are a rare but devastating complication. There is no therapy standard, conventional approaches are palliative. This study investigates an intensive chemotherapy with CNS penetrating drugs followed by high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation as a potentially curative approach.

Lymphomas are classified as Hodgkin's or non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, of which especially the latter represent a heterogeneous group with varying patterns of prognosis, biological behaviour and response to treatment. 18F-FDG PET/CT is useful for staging and response monitoring but has the disadvantage of associated radiation exposure which may not be desirable for young patients. Advanced MRI techniques including diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) are increasingly used for improved lesion detection and characterisation of lymphomas and in the whole-body mode offer a promising radiation-free alternative to CT. Molecular imaging in turn is important in theranostics medicine where detection of therapeutic target is essential. The concept of theranostics has been successfully adapted to management of neuroendocrine tumors (NET) where peptide receptor radiotherapy (PRRT) is offered to patients progressing on treatment with long-acting somatostatin analogues. Recently in the investigator's hospital a case of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) was initially misdiagnosed as NET because of high uptake of 68Ga-DOTANOC in pancreatic tumor at PET/CT. A PubMed search revealed a similar case report in bronchial tumor which turned out to be DLBCL (Jain et al. Clin Nucl Med 2014;39:358-359). Bearing these two cases in mind the investigators now aim to systematically study somatostatin receptor status (ssr) by measuring uptake of 68Ga-DOTANOC with PET/CT in patients with newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin's and Hodgkin's lymphoma. The imaging findings will be compared to immunohistochemically determined ssr-subtypes 2,3 and 5 obtained from pre-treatment fresh tumor samples and 18F-FDG PET/CT which is part of standard diagnostic evaluation. Furthermore, whole-body MRI with DWI will be performed before, during and after chemotherapy to define the most sensitive and specific imaging method appropriate for routine diagnosis and follow-up. This study has potential implications for future response monitoring and follow-up imaging techniques in patients with malignant lymphoma and provides additional biologic characterization which may be useful for novel therapeutic approaches such as PRRT.

This trial investigates stem cell transplants from partially mismatched donors in patients with blood and bone marrow cancers. The trial will test two kinds of transplants - a full intensity transplant using a high dose of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and a reduced intensity transplant with lower doses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Patients will be entered for the treatment pathway that is most appropriate for their level of health and fitness

This clinical trial is a multicentric prospective study to assess the clinical and prognostic value of sarcopenia in patients older than 70 years with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

The primary goal of this study by The Polish Adult Leukemia Group (PALG) is to verify if individual therapeutic approach taking into account biological and phenotypic differences as well as response at the level of minimal residual disease is associated with improved outcome of adults with precursor lymphoid neoplasms

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the value of AMA in a comparative multicenter regional study as a reference for aggressive lymphoma. The primary endpoint will be RDI. This study consider that the AMA support should allow a significant improvement of the RDI compared to the control group and thus impact the duration without progression. The study covers 350 patients recruited from 10 regional centers.