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Filter by:This study involves observing the level of cell cycle regulatory gene in patients with myeloproliferative disorders(MPD). These disorders include polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), myelofibrosis (MF) and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). The abnormal blood and/or bone marrow cells, or materials derived from these abnormal cells, like DNA, RNA, protein or plasma will be used in laboratory studies. Cell cycle regulatory protein such as cyclins, cyclin-dependent kinases(Cdks) and Cdk inhibitors(CKIs) play indispensable roles in processes such as transcription, metabolism and stem cell self-renewal. MPD are a group of diseases characterized by abnormally increased proliferation of erythroid, megakaryocytic, or granulocytic cells. The pathogenesis was still unclear. Detecting the level of cell cycle regulatory protein will be useful to look for the possible role in MPD and better understand the cause of MPD.
The hypothesis is that efficient prevention of thrombosis with aspirin at diagnosis becomes less useful once patients have achieved a hematologic response (HR) (modified by amendment 1/03/2017) and/or that this benefit is hampered by an increased hemorrhagic risk especially in elderly patients. Hence, investigator propose a prospective randomized study to assess the benefit / risk ratio of aspirin maintenance in high risk Essential thrombocythemia (ET) patients, in hematological response (modified by amendment 1/03/2017) on Hydroxyurea.
The Philadelphia chromosome negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) comprise a group of clonal hematological malignancies that are characterized by chronic myeloproliferation, splenomegaly, different degrees of bone marrow fibrosis, and disease-related symptoms including pruritus, night sweats, fever, weight loss, cachexia, and diarrhea. In addition, due to elevated numbers of leucocytes, erythrocytes and/or platelets, the disease course can be complicated by thromboembolic disease, hemorrhage, and leukemic transformation as well as myelofibrosis. Patients with polycythemia vera (PV) typically harbor an increased number of blood cells from all three hematopoietic cell lineages due to clonal amplification of hematopoetic stem cells, while patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET) typically show a predominant expansion of the megakaryocytic lineage. Most patients with PV below the age of 60 years are currently being treated with acetylsalicylic acid +/- phlebotomy only, and patients with low-risk ET have an almost normal life expectancy and often do not require specific treatment. However, PV- as well as ET-patients with a higher risk for complications require cytoreductive treatment. In addition, constitutional symptoms can be unbearable to patients even in the absence of bona fide high risk factors, and these patients may similarly benefit from antineoplastic therapy.
To see if it is possible to use short-duration tacrolimus after a peripheral blood stem cell transplant in certain malignancies that are considered difficult to engraft.
This study will evaluate the transfusion independence response rate in transfusion-dependent adults with myelofibrosis after treatment with momelotinib (MMB).
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of idelalisib in adults receiving ruxolitinib as therapy for intermediate to high-risk primary myelofibrosis (PMF), post-polycythemia vera, or post-essential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis (post-PV MF or post-ET MF) with progressive or relapsed disease. This is a dose-escalation study. There will be 4 cohorts (A, B, C, D). Participants will receive an escalating dose or dose frequency of idelalisib based on the safety data of available cohort(s).
This phase II trial studies how well nivolumab works in treating patients with primary myelofibrosis, post-essential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis, or post-polycythemia vera myelofibrosis. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread.
This research looks at two conditions, Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) and Polycythemia Vera (PV). ET causes people to produce too many blood cells called platelets and PV causes too many platelets and red blood cells to be made. Platelets are particles which circulate in the blood stream and normally prevent bleeding and bruising. Having too many platelets in the blood increases the risk of developing blood clots, which can result in life threatening events like heart attacks and strokes. When the number of red blood cells is increased in PV this will slow the speed of blood flow in the body and increase the risk of developing blood clots. The purpose of Part A of this study is to test the safety and tolerability of drug RG7388 patients and identify the recommended phase II dose in a single agent dose escalation study. The investigators want to find out what effects, good and/or bad it has on the disease. The purpose of Part B of this study is to test the safety and tolerability of the combination of RG7388 and Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2a or Pegasys in PV/ET patients from Part A who did not achieve at least a partial response by the end of three cycles of single agent RG7388. Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) and Polycythemia Vera (PV) have been difficult diseases to treat. RG7388 is a selective inhibitor of the p53-MDM2 binding that frees p53 from negative control and activates the p53 pathway in cancer cells, leading to cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in vitro and in vivo. It has been used to treat solid tumors and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) in clinical trials. Pegasys is a drug that is the standard of care for patients who have Chronic Hepatitis B (CHB). RG7388 is a drug that is not yet approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with essential thrombocythemia or polycythemia vera. Pegasys is a drug that is approved by the FDA for the treatment of CHB. The use of RG7388 alone and in combination with Pegasys is experimental.
The aim of this phase II study is to test a novel concept in the treatment of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), a disease of the bone marrow. With no current cure available, MPN are a group of chronic leukemias (blood cancers) in which patients produce too many blood cells. These increased blood cell numbers cause problems to the patient such as bleedings or thrombosis and some patients may progress to acute leukemia, a life threatening condition. Most MPN patients have a gene mutation called JAK2-V617F. The disease is maintained by mutant MPN stem cells that reside in the bone marrow in specialized locations called "niches". These niches need connections to the nervous system. New findings show that these connections are destroyed by the presence of the mutated MPN stem cells. Research teams found that some drugs (beta3-sympathicomimetics) can restore these damaged niches and at the same time reduce the MPN disease manifestation in a mouse model of MPN. Such sympathicomimetic drugs are already being used to treat patients with asthma or hyperactive bladder. These drugs have shown to have only few side effects. The study tests the effects of the beta-3-sympathicomimetic drug Mirabegron (Betmiga®) on MPN disease in 39 patients that carry a JAK2-V617F mutation. The hypothesis is that Mirabegron will have a beneficial effect on bone marrow niche cells and will thereby improve the disease manifestation in MPN patients. This study should provide a rapid answer whether targeting the nervous system of the niche cells could be useful for patients with MPN and warrants to be tested in larger and more long-term studies.
A lead-in cohort of ~20 patients with primary or secondary myelofibrosis previously treated with 1 or more Janus kinase inhibitors enrolled to single-agent glasdegib to evaluate safety and tolerability. Following the lead-in, a phase 2, double blind, 2-arm study, randomized 2:1 to oral single-agent glasdegib versus placebo in 201 patients resistant or intolerant to ruxolitinib.