Active clinical trials for "Multiple Myeloma"

Bortezomib-based triple-drug combination has greatly improved the response rate of multiple myeloma patients. Bortezomib,doxorubicin,and dexamethasone (PAD) is commonly used in clinical practice.Recent studies have found that cyclophosphamide, bortezomib,and dexamethasone (CyBorD)seems better than PAD in efficacy. However, there is no randomized phase 3 trial comparing these two regimens in the treatment of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients.In this study, the investigators will compare the efficacy and safety of these two regimens using once-weekly subcutaneous injection of bortezomib.

To investigate the efficacy of the combination of Thalidomide and Huang-Lian-Jie-Du-Tang on the patients with multiple myeloma in maintain therapy.

Background: Autologous T cells engineered to express a T cell receptor (TCR) targeting NY-ESO-1 will be infused back to patients with NY-ESO-1- expressing malignancies. The patients pretreated with a lymphodepleting preconditioning regimen will be monitored after infusion of anti-NY-ESO-1 TCR-transduced T cells for adverse events, persistence of anti-NY-ESO-1 TCR-transduced T cells and treatment efficacy. Objectives: To evaluate the safety and the efficacy of anti-NY-ESO-1 TCR-transduced T cell-based immunotherapy for patients with NY-ESO-1- expressing malignancies. Eligibility: Patients older than one year of age, who have relapsed or refractory malignancies that express both NY-ESO-1 and human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A2 molecules. Patients must have adequate organ functions. Design: Peripheral blood from patients will be collected for isolation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), which will be transduced with a lentiviral or retroviral vector encoding an HLA-A2 restricted anti-NY-ESO-1 TCR gene. Patients will receive a lymphodepleting preconditioning regimen to prepare their immune system to accept modified T cells. Patients will receive an infusion of their own modified T cells. They will remain in the hospital to be monitored for adverse events until they have recovered from the treatment. Patients will have frequent follow-up visits to monitor the persistence of modified T cells and efficacy of the treatment.

This study is designed as a phase I-II, open label, dose finding study. Study treatment will be as follows, in 28 day cycles: Pomalidomide: once daily orally (PO) dosing on days 1-21, every 28 days Bendamustine: once intravenously (IV) dosing on day 1, every 28 days Dexamethasone: weekly PO or IV dosing on days 1, 8, 15, and 22. After completing 6 cycles of treatment, dexamethasone may be decreased to 20mg per investigator discretion. After completing 12 cycles of treatment, patients will proceed to the maintenance phase of the study. Patients will receive Pomalidomide on day 1-21, every 28 days and dexamethasone on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 every 28 days until time of progression.

The purpose of this study is to see if the investigator can help the immune system to work against myeloma through the use/administration of a peptide vaccine (immunotherapy agent) directed against the Wilms Tumor 1 (WT1) protein called galinpepimut-S (or GPS, for brief). Because cancer is produced by the patient's own body, the immune system does not easily recognize and fight cancer cells. The immune system needs to be "trained" to do this; the latter goal is accomplished by using a vaccine consisting of selected fragments of the target antigen, in this case, WT1. This disease has been selected for this study because the WT1 protein is often present in myeloma cells. WT1 is a gene that is involved in the normal development of kidneys and other organs. When the WT1 gene becomes abnormal, it can make proteins involved in the development of cancer, i.e., can acquire the properties of a true "oncogene". This study will determine whether the vaccine against the WT1 antigen (present in malignant plasmacytes) can cause an immune response which is safe, but also able to keep the myeloma from either coming back or progressing.

Intravenous injection is the standard administration route of bortezomib; however, subcutaneous administration is an important alternative. We want to compared the pharmacokinetic of subcutaneous versus intravenous bortezomib at the approved 1•3 mg/m2 dose and twice per week,on days1, 4, 8 and 11 of 21-day cycles, schedule in newly diagnosed patients of multiple myeloma.

This is a Phase I/II, open-label, multi-center, competitive enrollment and dose escalation study of ALT-803 in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

The aim of this study is to determine whether the presence of vulnerability detected by geriatricians is associated with treatment discontinuation in older patient. During the comprehensive geriatric assessment realized before the decision-treatment, the following data are recorded and their impact in the therapeutic changes will also be analysed: comorbidity, age, depression, functional status, the cognitive impairment and malnutrition.

Bortezomib/Liposomal doxorubicin (V-DD) is preferred to bortezomib single agent in salvage therapy for Multiple Myeloma (MM). The present study is designed to assessment the efficacy and safety study of Bortezomib in combination with Liposomal Doxorubicin and Dexamethasone in treatment of Plasma Cell Leukemia (PCL). Primary study endpoint is the overall response rate (sCR+CR+VGPR+PR). Secondary endpoints is the rate of complete response (sCR+CR), partial remission rate (VGPR + PR), duration of response (DOR), overall survival (OS).

This phase II trial studies how well romiplostim works in increasing low platelet counts in patients with multiple myeloma receiving chemotherapy. Romiplostim may cause the body to make platelets after chemotherapy