Active clinical trials for "Multiple Myeloma"

This study will use genomics-based technology, such as DNA microarrays, to more precisely diagnose subsets of lymphoma, leukemia and multiple myeloma patients. There have been many attempts to classify lymphoid cancers in ways that will be useful for clinical diagnosis and treatment. Although broad diagnostic categories have been reliably defined, patients within each category have distinct clinical courses, suggesting that these classifications could be further divided into molecular (genetic) subtypes. For example, 40 percent of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma achieve long-term disease remissions following combination chemotherapy and are apparently cured, whereas the remaining 60 percent die from the disease. Similarly, some patients with follicular lymphoma develop aggressive disease within a few years of diagnosis, while others have stable disease over 10 to 20 years. Although the distinctions in clinical course of these diseases are recognized, there are no studies to determine the molecular (genetic) basis for this variability. This study will try to define new molecular diagnostic categories in these diseases and correlate them with clinical features, including treatment response, disease remission and overall survival following chemotherapy. This retrospective study will use clinical data and tissue samples from participating centers in the Lymphoma/Leukemia Molecular Profiling Project LLMPP). New patients will not be recruited for this study. Biopsy materials, including fresh frozen or OTC-embedded lymphoma biopsy material, viably frozen samples of peripheral blood cells from leukemia patients, and viably frozen samples of bone marrow aspirates from multiple myeloma patients will be collected from pathologists participating in the LLMPP. RNA and genomic DNA will be extracted from the tumor samples. A variety of technologies will be used to characterize the genome of the cancer cells, including lymphochip microarrays for array-based comparative genomic hybridization; Southern blotting and PCR for translocation of genes previously implicated in these malignancies; and PCR and DNA sequencing methods for analyzing base changes in the genome of the cancer cells. Clinical information from the initial diagnosis to disease relapse will be taken from existing databases and/or patient charts. Gene expression will be correlated with the clinical data. If a small number of genes is found to strongly predict clinical outcome, quantitative RT-PCR assays using the Taqman technology may be developed as an alternative to DNA microarray analysis.

The purpose of this pre-approval access program is to give talquetamab monotherapy (treatment with single drug) to participants with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (a type of cancer that begins in plasma cells [white blood cells that produce antibodies] which has returned or difficult to treat) who have relapsed on or are refractory to all locally available and clinically appropriate treatment and who are not eligible for a clinical trial.

The objective of this study is to provide early access to daratumumab treatment and collect additional safety data while the medication is not commercially available or available through another protocol for subjects with multiple myeloma who have received at least 3 prior lines of therapy including a proteasome inhibitor (PI) and an immunomodulatory agent (IMiD) or whose disease is double refractory to both a PI and an IMiD.

This retrospective observational cohort study aims to describe the impact of COVID-19 in patients treated with autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) for malignant disease in terms of risk factors, morbidity, need for supportive care and mortality. All patients treated with ASCT in Sweden from 1st January 2020 until 31st December 2020 are eligible for this study. Patients who also has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 from start of conditioning or later will be identified through the national registry of the Public Health Agency of Sweden and a systematic analysis of their medical records will be performed.

This study is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of nonconforming idecabtagene vicleucel (ide-cel) in participants with multiple myeloma per the approved prescribing information. This is an expanded access protocol (EAP) to be conducted at Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) qualified sites approved for commercial administration of idecabtagene vicleucel and where the EAP is authorized to be conducted for use of nonconforming idecabtagene vicleucel. Non-conforming idecabtagene vicluecel is idecabtagene vicleucel that does not meet commercial release specifications but may be acceptable for use as an investigational product in the Expanded Access Protocol setting.

Assess the impact in outcome of the use of zoledronic acid in multiple myeloma.

The purpose of this study is to learn how myeloma cells grow and become a cancer, how to distinguish them from normal cells and how to eliminate these cells selectively.

Objectives: The objective of this long-term observational study is to assess progression-free survival and overall survival for a period of five years following the first dose of study treatment (placebo or plerixafor [AMD3100]) in protocol AMD3100-3102. Patients that received at least 1 dose of study treatment (placebo or plerixafor) in the multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled AMD3100-3102 study, which was designed to evaluate plerixafor plus granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) versus placebo plus G-CSF to mobilize hematopoietic stem cells for autologous transplantation of Multiple Myeloma (MM) patients are eligible.

This study evaluates whether tumors present in patients with cancer who are planned to get CAR T-cells have low amounts of oxygen (hypoxia). PET scans may be used to check the amounts of oxygen within areas of cancer with a special radioactive tracer called FAZA that specifically looks for areas of low oxygen. This study is being done to help researchers determine how the amount of oxygen within areas of cancer affect how well CAR T-cells kill cancer cells.

Multiple myeloma (MM) is blood disorder characterized by the detection of a monoclonal paraprotein in serum or urine, which is often associated with the presence of clonal plasma cells (PCs) mainly in the bone marrow (BM) .The zinc-finger protein 217 (ZNF217) is an oncogenic protein that plays deleterious functions in various human cancers. The ZNF217 gene is located at the 20q13 chromosomal region, which is frequently amplified in human tumors .