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Filter by:Multiple Myeloma is an incurable cancer. Therapies for it include oral chemotherapy pills. It is unknown whether patients regularly and correctly take these anti-myeloma pills. This study wants to measure the rate of adults with MM taking anti-myeloma pills correctly. The investigators also want to use a teaching tool to see if it will help patients feel more satisfied and more confident in taking their anti-myeloma pills correctly. The investigators hope to use this data from this small study to eventually do a larger study in this area.
Patients with Multiple Myeloma are monitored for disease progression and for response to treatment by the treating hematologist or oncologist. Laboratory tests are usually utilized for these purposes. The role of imaging is confined to follow-up the progression of visible bone lesions. We suggest that microscopic bone lesions impair bone structure well before they grow enough to be visible on a CT scan. This impairment of bone strength can probably be captured by application of CT-based finite element analysis to the CT scans that were performed for monitoring of progression of the disease.
From December 6, 2019 to March 23, 2020, the research group of Qingkun Fan found a novel protein(temporarily named protein F) in heparin anticoagulant plasma of three patients with heart disease. One patient was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.However, protein F cannot be detected by serum protein electrophoresis. Preliminary studies have shown that this novel protein F have an obvious absorption peak at about 600nm. Placed at 2-8 degrees for 7 days, protein F will be isolated from heparin plasma. To the naked eye, protein F appear to be transparent jelly between the red blood cells and the plasma. The specific protein F, how it is produced, how it causes disease are still unknown. This study will explore how to detect protein F and how it is produced.
Multiple myeloma (MM) is blood disorder characterized by the detection of a monoclonal paraprotein in serum or urine, which is often associated with the presence of clonal plasma cells (PCs) mainly in the bone marrow (BM) .The zinc-finger protein 217 (ZNF217) is an oncogenic protein that plays deleterious functions in various human cancers. The ZNF217 gene is located at the 20q13 chromosomal region, which is frequently amplified in human tumors .
This a Phase I/II randomized trial for patients with relapsed refractory Multiple Myeloma who have relapsed after treatment with prior therapies. The protocol is designed to evaluate two agents, Anti-LAG-3 and Anti-TIGIT, in order to understand their immunologic effects and safety both as single agents and in combination with pomalidomide and dexamethasone. In these arms, patients will be treated with either Anti-LAG-3 or Anti-TIGIT respectively for one cycle as single agent followed by the addition of pomalidomide and dexamethasone in combination for subsequent cycles. A third arm allows patients to be treated with the FDA approved combination of elotuzumab plus pomalidomide and dexamethsone as a control. This arm will thus allow a concurrent standard of care comparator for the experimental arms.
The purpose of this pilot study is to examine changes in patient-reported outcomes in patients with RRMM receiving triple therapy with ixazomib in combination with LenDex in a real world setting as well as to analyze clinical outcomes and safety of this treatment modality.
Treatment options for multiple myeloma have increased significantly over the last years with the approval of immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs) and proteasome inhibitors (PIs). These therapies have markedly improved overall survival for these patients to a median of 5-7 years. Due to the advanced age, the myeloma patient collective has a high prevalence of pre-existing cardiovascular comorbidities. In addition, the primary disease process contributes to cardiovascular complications. With the beginning of anti-tumor therapy, an increased incidence of cardiovascular complications in myeloma patients can be determined. This includes hypertension, left ventricular dysfunction, heart failure and both arterial and venous thromboembolic events. The detailed mechanism by which proteasome inhibitors and immunomodulatory agents lead to increased cardiovascular events is not established at this time. Endothelial dysfunction, as a possible mechanism of cardiovascular toxicity, is difficult to assess. Flow-mediated dilation (FMD) is an noninvasive method to measure endothelial function by assessing the change in the vasodilatative reserve of the brachial artery. Several independent recent investigations implicate that vascular (endothelial) dysfunction precedes hypertension and heart failure. This has been related to a reduced level of metabolites of the l-arginine-nitric oxide (NO) signaling pathway. Hypothesis: 1. Anti-myeloma therapy exert vascular toxicity by limiting endothelial function. Endothelial function, assessed by the change in the vasodilatative reserve of the brachial artery (flow-mediated dilation = FMD) decreases after myeloma therapy. 2. Patients with multiple myeloma have a limited endothelial function compared to a healthy control group. A total of 40 myeloma patients will be examined. Measurements will be taken at baseline, 1 month and 6 month after myeloma therapy. Patients should not have received chemotherapy for at least 3 months. Furthermore a healthy sex- and age-matched control group will be examined.
This study will assess the efficacy of daratumumab in combination with ixazomib and dexamethasone as second line treatment for relapsed Multiple Myeloma patients.
The goal of this clinical trial is to study the feasibility and efficacy of anti-CD19/BCMA bispecific chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) T cell therapy for relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma.
A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel, Multi-Center Study to Assess the Efficacy of BRCX014 Combined with Standard-Of-Care Treatment in Subjects with Glioblastoma Multiforme, Multiple Myeloma, and GI Malignancies