Active clinical trials for "Neoplasms, Plasma Cell"

The purpose of this study is to investigate the anti-myeloma effect of panobinostat given at two different doses (10 mg and 20 mg oral) in combination with carfilzomib (20/56 mg/m2 i.v.) and low dose dexamethasone (20 mg oral) vs carfilzomib plus low-dose dexamethasone in patients with relapsed or relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma. Safety and efficacy will be evaluated. Treatment will be administered in 4-week cycles until patients discontinue due to disease progression or unacceptable toxicity or for other reasons. Patients who discontinue the study treatment for reasons other than documented disease progression will be followed for disease assessments every 8 weeks until progression. All patients will be followed for survival until 3 years have passed from their entry into the study, or they have discontinued the follow up earlier.

The purpose of this study is to see how long lenalidomide therapy can maintain or improve the disease response obtained after induction therapy that does not include lenalidomide, pomalidomide or thalidomide; and consequently reduce worsening of disease and to evaluate the activity of lenalidomide. Patients will receive lenalidomide or be under observation. All patients will attend regular clinic visits to evaluate their disease and health. Patients will have the option to participate in additional biomarker correlative studies in addition to their participation in the main study.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the overall response rate of Trametinib when administered orally to patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma

This is an open-label, single-arm, multicentre study conducted in Spain to estimate the effectiveness of palifermin administered at a dose of 60 mg/kg/day IV for 3 consecutive days before the start of the conditioning regimen and for 3 consecutive days after autologous PBSCT for treating oral mucositis in patients with NHL and MM who have received high-dose conditioning chemotherapy.

RATIONALE: Chemoprevention therapy is the use of certain drugs to try to prevent the development or recurrence of cancer. Dehydroepiandrosterone and clarithromycin may be effective in preventing multiple myeloma. PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of dehydroepiandrosterone with that of clarithromycin in treating patients who may be at a high risk of developing multiple myeloma.

RATIONALE: Giving low doses of chemotherapy, monoclonal antibodies, and radiation therapy before a donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It also stops the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells when they do not exactly match the patient's blood. The donated stem cells may replace the patient's immune system and help destroy any remaining cancer cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil before transplant may stop this from happening. PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects of alemtuzumab, fludarabine, and melphalan with or without cyclosporine, mycophenolate mofetil, and total-body irradiation before donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant and to see how well they work in treating patients with relapsed or refractory hematologic cancer.

There is a growing body of data suggesting that the the risk of developing multiple myeloma, or myelomagenesis, is associated with genetic alterations occurring in the tumor cells. A limited number of candidate genes and polymorphisms have been reported in patients with this disease. In this study the investigators will compare the genetic information obtained on purified abnormal plasmocytes obtained from patients with multiple myeloma with available public databases in an effort to identify and if possible validate the role of certain mutations and/or polymorphisms in myelomagenesis. Plasmocytes will be obtained by immunomagnetic enrichment using CD138+ beads.

Comparison between FDG-PET and MRI for the assessment of response to intensive chemotherapy in multiple myeloma patients.

Historically, participation in clinical trials has been highly skewed towards specific demographic groups. However, research identifying which trial attributes impact participation, in either positive or negative ways, is limited. This study invites participants to record a wide range of data on their clinical trial experience, with the goal being to identify factors which persistently limit patients' ability to participate in, or complete, a trial in which they were initially interested. Data will be analyzed through a range of demographic lenses, in hopes of discovering patterns which might improve the experience of future multiple myeloma patients.

The purpose of this study is to find out how balloon kyphoplasty (surgical repair of the patient's fracture using balloons and bone cement) compares to non-surgical treatment in reducing vertebral compression fractures while providing pain relief and improved function and quality of life.