Active clinical trials for "Neoplasms, Plasma Cell"

Multiple myeloma is difficult to treat with only anti-cancer medicine (called chemotherapy) or radiation alone. Sometimes higher doses of chemotherapy are used but when used can also lower blood counts. Using own cells (special cells called stem cells) to help increase the blood counts after high doses of chemotherapy is called autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). Using own stem cells to restore blood counts and other advances in supportive measures (antibiotics and growth factors that increase blood counts) has improved the safety of ASCT. However, blood counts still decrease for a period of days after high doses of chemotherapy. During that time, patients are at greater risk for infections. Studies have shown that the faster the blood counts recover after ASCT, the less at risk there is for developing unwanted side effects after ASCT. Typically during an ASCT, a patient's stem cells are given back to them all at once on a single day. In this study, the investigators plan to see what happens when smaller amounts of own stem cells are given back to the patient over multiple days. The investigators want to find out what effects good and/or bad this will have on the patient and there multiple myeloma. Some studies have shown that giving back stem cells over a period of days helps to increase bone marrow activity and decrease the time it takes for blood counts to recover after ASCT. It is our hope that this new approach may lower a patient's risk of side effects and infections, decrease the number of blood transfusions that a patient needs during this process, reduce the time a patient has to spend in the hospital, and lower overall treatment costs.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pomalidomide monotherapy in subjects with refractory or relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma who were enrolled in study CC-4047-MM-003 (NCT01311687) and discontinued treatment with high-dose dexamethasone due to disease progression.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of NOX A12 alone and in combination with a background therapy of bortezomib and dexamethasone (VD) chemotherapy in previously treated patients with multiple myeloma (MM).

This multicenter, open-label, dose-escalating study will assess the safety and efficacy of DFRF4539A in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. Cohorts of patients will receive multiple ascending doses of intravenous DFRF4539A every 3 weeks or weekly. Patients exhibiting acceptable safety and evidence of clinical benefit may receive DFRF4539A for up to 17 cycles. Anticipated time on study treatment is 1 year or until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity occurs.

The purpose of this study is to test a new drug called carfilzomib. It is a type of drug called a proteasome inhibitor. Proteasome breaks down proteins that are no longer useful to the cell. When the proteasome is turned off by a drug (like carfilzomib), useless proteins cannot be broken down. Instead the proteins build up and cause the cell to die. Myeloma cells make a lot of protein and are especially in need of a functional proteasome to survive. Carfilzomib is not approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration to treat myeloma. It is considered an experimental drug. Previous studies have shown that carfilzomib is safe to use. This study will look at what the effects, good and/or bad, carfilzomib has on myeloma.

The purpose of the study is to determine whether the addition of Elotuzumab to Lenalidomide/low-dose Dexamethasone will increase the progression free survival (PFS)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate efficacy and safety of the combination regimen of bortezomib-bendamustine-dexamethasone in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma

RATIONALE: Pomalidomide and bortezomib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Bortezomib may also stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking blood flow to the tumor. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as dexamethasone, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving pomalidomide and bortezomib together with dexamethasone may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects and best dose of bortezomib when given together with pomalidomide and dexamethasone and to see how well it works in treating patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

The purpose of this Phase 2 study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of treatment with bortezomib, lenalidomide and dexamethasone in patients with untreated multiple myeloma. This study will evaluate whether the addition of lenalidomide to bortezomib and dexamethasone will increase the Complete Response (CR)/ very good partial response (VGPR) rate before and after High Dose Therapy (HDT) with ASCT.

The purpose of this study is to find out whether the new drug AT9283 will slow the growth of multiple myeloma. Side effects of AT9283 will also be closely monitored.