Active clinical trials for "Multiple Myeloma"

The purpose of this study was to determine the safety and maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of ALXN6000 (samalizumab) in treating relapsing or refractory B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) or multiple myeloma (MM) and to study how samalizumab may help the immune system fight tumors that express CD200.

A non-myeloablative treatment strategy and uniform selection criteria will enable patients with a variety of low grade B-Cell malignancies to attain long term disease control without unacceptably high treatment related mortality.

RATIONALE: A peripheral stem cell transplant may be able to replace blood-forming cells that were destroyed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy, or that have become cancer. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving cyclophosphamide and fludarabine together with total-body irradiation followed by cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil before the transplant may stop this from happening. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well giving combination chemotherapy together with radiation therapy followed by cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil works in treating patients who are undergoing a donor stem cell transplant for hematologic cancer, metastatic breast cancer, or kidney cancer.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Velcade plus dexamethasone used as induction chemotherapy prior to autologous transplantation.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the anti-tumor activity of 852A when used to treat certain hematologic malignancies not responding to standard treatment.

The primary aim of this trial is to determine the effect of a short course (i.e., 3 cycles) of low-dose Bortezomib (Velcade) on bone remodeling and on disease progression. The dose of bortezomib used in this trial of 0.7 mg/m2 is the lowest dose which has shown efficacy in the 3 largest monotherapy trials with bortezomib. 17% of patients in the APEX, 9% patients in CREST and 24% in SUMMIT trials were treated with 0.7 mg/m2 dosages. Bortezomib will be given on days 1, 8, 15, 22 over 42 days to reduce the incidence of possible drug related side effects. OBJECTIVES: Primary Objective The primary objective of this study is to: To evaluate the effect of Velcade at 0.7 mg/m2 dose on inducing osteoblast activation as measured by ALP and other bone markers in patients with relapsed/refractory myeloma. Secondary Objectives The secondary objectives of this study are to: To evaluate the association between osteoblastic activation and myeloma response to Velcade. To identify predictive factors for Velcade-associated osteoblastic activation.

RATIONALE: Giving chemotherapy and total-body irradiation (TBI) before a donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells and helps 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 will help the patient's bone marrow make stem cells, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Giving colony-stimulating factors, such as filgrastim (G-CSF) and plerixafor, to the donor helps the stem cells move (mobilization) from the bone marrow to the blood so they can be collected and stored. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying giving plerixafor and filgrastim together for mobilization of donor peripheral blood stem cells before a peripheral blood stem cell transplant in treating patients with hematologic malignancies

This is an open-label, single arm phase 1 study to evaluate the dose-limiting toxicity, maximum tolerated dose, and recommended phase II dose of Clioquinol in patients with relapsed or refractory hematologic malignancies. The study will also characterize Cliquinol's safety, tolerability and pharmacodynamic effect.

Multiple myeloma (MM) accounts for approximately 1% of all malignancies and 10% of hematological tumors, representing the second most frequently occurring hematological malignancy in the United States. At any one time, 50,000 people suffer from MM, and approximately 15,000 are diagnosed each year. The median age is approximately 65 years, although occasionally MM occurs in the second decade of life. Bortezomib and panobinostat intravenous (IV) are active agents in multiple myeloma and appear to work through different biochemical pathways, suggesting that there may be a synergistic effect using the combination. Both compounds have shown anabolic bone effect, which has been associated to significant anti-myeloma activity. Primary objectives: To assess the toxicity of bortezomib combined with one of 4 doses of panobinostat IV in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, and To find the most appropriate doses of bortezomib and panobinostat IV in the combination. Secondary objective: To assess the effect of bortezomib in combination with panobinostat IV on inducing osteoblast activation in patients with relapsed/refractory myeloma.

The purpose of this study is to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), activity, and safety of oprozomib in patients with hematologic malignancies.