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Filter by:Fatigue is a common symptom and can be the most distressing symptom of a range of medical conditions. This Ecological Momentary Assessment study will investigate lived experiences of fatigue in detail in individuals with myeloma, long COVID, heart failure, and in healthy controls without fatigue. Participants will wear ECG patches and wrist-worn sensors that measure heart rate variability, activity levels, posture, and other parameters. They will self-rate their levels of fatigue four times daily and on-demand (when fatigue levels are noticeably good or troublesome). They will participate in an end of study interview and will have an optional feedback session with a researcher to make sense of the data they have provided.
The purpose of this study is to understand the study medicine (called Elranatamab, or PF-06863135) as potential treatment for refractory multiple myeloma. Multiple myeloma is a form of cancer in the bone that forces healthy blood cells to go out. Sometimes, multiple myeloma does not respond to current therapy or quickly progresses, and this is called refractory multiple myeloma. Elranatamab is a study medicine that target multiple myeloma and activates the human body to fight against this disease. We are seeking Chinese participants to take part in this study. The study will be 2 parts, called part 1b and part 2. In part 1b, participants will receive Elranatamab at 2 steps priming and full dose as a sc (subcutaneous injection) therapy. We will monitor participants' safety and reactions to the study medicine. This will help us understand the dosage of Elranatamab to be used safely. In part 2 of the study, participants will receive Elranatamab and their multiple myeloma growth will be monitored. This will help us understand if Elranatamab, when used alone, may be a therapy for refractory multiple myeloma. Participants in this part of the study are expected to take part for about 2 years.
The purpose of the study is to find a safe dose and to evaluate the safety and tolerability of the drug BMS-986345, in combination with duvelisib.
Hospice care at the end of life (EOL) includes a multidisciplinary team that helps patients and families focus on symptom control and quality of life. For patients with "solid" (e.g. lung, breast) cancers it has been shown to improve quality of life for both patients and families. Unfortunately, patients with blood cancers (e.g. leukemia, lymphoma) often delay their enrollment and receive more aggressive care at the EOL. One factor in this delay is the inability for patients to receive blood transfusions while on hospice. Patients with blood cancers often require frequent blood transfusions near the EOL for symptom control. The structure of Medicare hospice benefit makes coverage for transfusions financially unfeasible for hospice agencies, and therefore patients with blood cancers will delay enrollment onto hospice in order to continue to receive blood transfusions. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether removing this financial burden, through external funding of blood transfusions for patients while on hospice, will encourage patients with blood cancers to enroll on hospice earlier and ultimately improve their and their caregivers EOL care.
Overall the issue of patients above 65-70 years of age being that it is impossible for most of them to undergo an intensive treatment like autologous stem cell transplant with little prospect of debulking effectively the bone marrow with chemotherapy, and also few possibilities to harass the bone microenvironment in the tumoral niche. If, advanced age in frail patients is predictive of an increased risk of treatment-related toxicity, there is a growing number of elderly patients in regards to transplantation, but still fit if one considers the objectives of life characterized with prolonged survival. These patients might have the same treatment as to the transplant eligible, but without the transplant procedure. The development of immunotherapy has transformed the treatment landscape of cancer, particularly in MM, increasing the treatment possibilities with possibly fewer adverse events. The therapeutic strategy and treatment options for NTE patients moved from melphalan-based induction regimens to lenalidomide-based associations, which is now the backbone of most treatment for NTE patients. Even though the latest melphalan, bortezomib and prednisone (MPV) association was considered somewhat effective it was not so well tolerated. Furthermore, MPV hardly prolonged PFS beyond 2 years. It was recently improved with the addition of Daratumumab, first in class anti CD38 Mab in the phase III ALCYONE. The association lenalidomide and dexamethasone (Rd) has significantly improved the easiness of treating the NTE population and all drugs seem to be possible to combine to Rd. In that extent, proteasome inhibitors have always been one of the most impactful family of agents in MM, and as expected Bortezomib plus Rd has become a very relevant and commonly used regimen in NTE NDMM. These groundbreaking results have favored the development of 2 randomized phase 3 studies for registration of combination of antiCD38Mab (Daratumumab (Cepheus, NCT03652064), Isatuximab (Imroz, NCT03319667) +Rd +Velcade in comparison to VRd. Both studies have used as a comparator the VRd regimen which is today one of the safest, active and popular triplet based Rd regimen, approved, and therefore the best control arm possibly for these studies. However, as much as there has been no direct head to head comparison of VRd to Dara Rd, when looking at the data from Maia it is anticipated that DRd will become a standard of care, and might challenge strongly VRd. Yet, multiple questions remain still, anticipating the change in backbone from VRd to antiCD38 +Rd becoming the new standard of care for NTE NDMM patients. The investigators have therefore planned to answer the critical question of the role of proteasome inhibitors in NTE non frail NDMM when considering anti CD38 +Rd as the backbone.
This study is intended to evaluate the ability of an intramyocardial strain analysis package with cardiac MRI to assist in the early detection and management of cardiotoxicity from therapeutics used to treat cancer.
In this prospective, randomised, controlled, open-label, Phase III, non-inferiority clinical trial trial patients with a diagnosis of myeloma who were undergoing autologous HSCT were randomised 1:1 to receive cryotherapy for 7 hours or 2 hours . Oral mucositis was evaluated prospectively.
Newly diagnosed Multiple Myeloma patients who are ineligible for a transplant have inferior outcomes to that of the transplant population. This is an area of high unmet need and calls for newer therapies with novel mechanisms of action to improve survival in this non-transplant eligible (NTE) group. Daratumumab is a monoclonal antibody that targets CD38 expressed at high levels on myeloma plasma cells. In phase 1/2 studies, it has demonstrated impressive single agent activity in relapse and refractory myeloma with a very acceptable toxicity profile. This set the stage for combinations with daratumumab to increase efficacy and improve outcomes of patients in both the relapse refractory and newly diagnosed settings. Two large Phase 2 trails using lenalidomide and dexamethasone or bortezomib and dexamethasone along with Daratumumab demonstarted the impressive efficacy of antibody based 3 drug combinations in the relapsed refractory myeloma setting. More recently a large clinical trial using a Bortezomib based 4 drug combination with Daratumumab was reported from Europe in the first-line treatment of transplant ineligible Myeloma patients showing very good survival outcomes. Hence the investigators hypothesize that the combination of Daratumumab with bortezomib and dexamethasone in the NTE population may therefore improve efficacy and clinical outcomes.
Diffusion-weighted Whole Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging (WB-MRI) is a new technique that builds on existing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology. It uses the movement of water molecules in human tissue to define with great accuracy cancerous cells from normal cells. Using this technique the investigators can much more accurately define the spread and rate of cancer growth. This information is vital in the selection of patients' treatment pathways. WB-MRI images are obtained for the entire body in a single scan. Unlike other imaging techniques such as computed Tomography (CT) or Positron Emission Tomography (PET) PET/CT there is no radiation exposure. Despite the considerable advantages that this new technique brings, including "at a glance" assessment of the extent of disease status, WB-MRI requires a significant increase in the time required to interpret one scan. This is because one whole body scan typically comprises several thousand images. Machine learning (ML) is a computer technique in which computers can be 'trained' to rapidly pin-point sites of disease and thus aid the radiologist's expert interpretation. If, as the investigators believe, this technique will help the radiologist to interpret scans of patients with myeloma more accurately and quickly, it could be more widely adopted by the NHS and benefit patient care. The investigators will conduct a three-phase research plan in which ML software will be developed and tested with the aim of achieving more rapid and accurate interpretation of WB-MRI scans in myeloma patients.
A PET-CT will be performed on patients with myeloma after a standard first-line treatment. The PET-positive patients will receive 4 cycles of Carfilzomb-Revlimid-Dexamethason (KRd), before a new PET-CT will be performed.