Active clinical trials for "Multiple Myeloma"

The present study will be a multicenter, prospective phase II-study investigating safety and efficacy of the combination of auto-allo tandem stem cell transplantation in patients with multiple myeloma and age of >_60 years, followed by maintenance therapy with low-dose Thalidomide and Donor Lymphocyte Infusions.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of fluphenazine in patients with advanced multiple myeloma. The study will also describe the efficacy of this drug.

The prognosis after retreating with high-dose melphalan with stem cell support after first relapse after high-dose treatment is dependent on the time to first relapse. Bortezomib can increase chemosensitivity of e.g. melphalan. The trial aims at determining the toxicity of adding bortezomib to high-dose melphalan with stem cell support and evaluating whether the time to a second relapse can be prolonged.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as melphalan, use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Stem cell transplant using stem cells from the patient may be able to replace immune cells that were destroyed by chemotherapy used to kill cancer cells. Giving colony-stimulating factors, such as G-CSF or pegfilgrastim, helps stem cells move from the bone marrow to the blood so they can be collected. It is not yet known which regimen is more effective in treating multiple myeloma. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying how well high-dose chemotherapy followed by stem cell transplant works in treating patients with newly diagnosed stage I, stage II, or stage III multiple myeloma.

In this study, researchers want to find out if using the VTD regimen, along with higher doses melphalan, in subjects who have relapsed or progressed after previous transplant(s), can be given safely to subjects who have failed previous transplant(s).

A multicenter, double arms, prospective randomized controlled phase 4 study. Approximately 50 previously untreated subjects with multiple myeloma will be enrolled. The study will consist of 6 phases, screening, treatment and follow-up.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether intravenous busulfan and melphalan as a conditioning regimen is effective in the treatment of multiple myeloma undergoing autologous stem cell transplantation.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of melphalan for injection for autologous stem cell transplant in multiple myeloma

It is possible that the combination of lenalidomide, dexamethasone and ACE 011 may reduce or prevent the growth of cancer cells along with improving anemia and bone lesions that sometimes occur in people with multiple myeloma. This current study is the first study combining ACE 011 with lenalidomide. In this research study, the investigators are looking for the highest dose of ACE 011 that can be given with lenalidomide and dexamethasone. The investigators will also begin to collect information about the effect of the combination of ACE 011, lenalidomide and dexamethasone on multiple myeloma.

Protocol DSMM VIII is a multi-center, open-label study evaluating the safety and tolerability, as well as the efficacy, of maintenance treatment with VELCADE (bortezomib) in patients with multiple myeloma with detectable disease activity following tandem high-dose chemotherapy and autologous SCT. The time from SCT to the initiation of VELCADE treatment will be 3 to 6 months.