Active clinical trials for "Neoplasms, Plasma Cell"

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid in treating patients who have advanced primary or metastatic solid tumors that have not responded to previous therapy.

RATIONALE: White blood cells from donors may be able to kill cancer cells in patients with multiple myeloma that has recurred following bone marrow transplantation. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving donor white blood cells works in treating patients with recurrent multiple myeloma who have undergone bone marrow transplantation.

RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage cancer cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Interferon alfa may interfere with the growth of cancer cells. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of total-body irradiation, busulfan, and interferon alfa followed by peripheral stem cell or bone marrow transplantation in treating patients with multiple myeloma.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. Combining peripheral stem cell transplantation with chemotherapy and radiation therapy may allow the doctor to give higher doses of radiation and chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of high-dose melphalan plus total-body irradiation and peripheral stem cell transplantation in treating patients with multiple myeloma in first relapse.

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a neoplastic expansion of bone marrow plasma cells. Despite advances in treatment in recent years, MM is still a fatal disease. MM is characterized by the ability of malignant cells to produce large amounts of monoclonal immunoglobulin. The secretion of these immunoglobulins can be detected as the "M-protein" in serum, and the measurement of the M-component is used both for diagnosis and to evaluate treatment response and relapse. The high load of secreted proteins in MM cells requires a efficient way to clear these proteins from the cells and targeting protein degradation is an important therapeutic target in MM. This is today done by inhibiting the proteasome, one of the two central ways cells can degrade proteins, by drugs named proteasome inhibitors (including bortezomib, ixazomib and carfilzomib). Patients become resistant to these drugs, and it is therefore likely that myeloma cells also utilise another important system for protein degradation, called autophagy. Pre-clinical studies have shown that the combination of the proteasome inhibitor carfilzomib and the autophagy inhibitor hydroxychloroquine increases myeloma cell death and that hydroxychloroquine is able to reverse MM cell resistance to carfilzomib. This is the rationale for this study, where the investigators add the autophagy inhibitor hydroxychloroquine to a standard regime of carfilzomib and dexamethasone, to determine a maximum tolerated dose of this combination and to study tolerability.

This is a Phase 1b open-label study of ciforadenant, an oral, small molecule inhibitor targeting adenosine-2A receptors (A2AR), on safety/tolerability and efficacy in combination with daratumumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting CD38, in relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

This phase II MATCH treatment trial identifies the effects of nivolumab in patients whose cancer has a genetic change called mismatch repair deficiency. Mismatch repair deficiency refers to cells that have mutations (changes) in certain genes that are involved in correcting mistakes made when DNA is copied in a cell. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of cancer cells with mismatch repair deficiency to grow and spread. Researchers hope to learn if nivolumab will shrink this type of cancer or stop its growth.

Primary objective: To determine the incidence of infusion related reactions (IRR's) in the first 6 months of daratumumab administration.

This is a phase I/II, single arm, open label, two-part study that will assess safety, tolerability and clinical activity of GSK2857916 given in combination with a programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) inhibitor pembrolizumab in subjects with RRMM. This study will enroll adult subjects with RRMM, who have undergone stem cell transplant or who are considered transplant ineligible. Part 1 is a dose escalation phase to evaluate the safety and tolerability of escalating doses of GSK2857916 in combination with 200 milligrams (mg) pembrolizumab to establish the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D). The following dose levels of GSK2857916 are planned to be studied: 2.5 milligrams per kilograms (mg/kg) (dose level [DL] 1) and 3.4 mg/kg (DL2). Part 2 is a dose expansion cohort. Once the RP2D has been identified, an expansion cohort will open for enrolment to confirm the safety profile and to evaluate the clinical activity of the combination. Up to 40 evaluable subjects will be enrolled in this two-part study (up to 12 in Part 1, and 28 in Part 2).

Research question: Is KRd therapy effective and safe in the real-world Asian patients? Primay objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of KRd in RRMM patients Secondary objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of investigational treatment strategy by PFS difference according to the high-risk disease subgroups and previous treatment OS Overall response rate and clinical benefit rate Duration of response To evaluate the safety and tolerability of KRd in RRMM patients