Active clinical trials for "Leukemia"

This is a multicentric, prospective pilot trial testing a Clofarabine-Cyclophosphamide combination to treat refractory and first bone marrow relapse adult ALL, for the achievement of a complete remission (CR) and the concurrent evaluation of biological response in ALL cells (minimal residual disease, apoptosis and DNA cell damage, pharmacogenomics).

Assessment of efficacy of azacitidine to prevent a relapse

The overall purpose of the study was to determine if MEDI-551, when used in combination with salvage chemotherapy (bendamustine) in participants with relapsed or refractory CLL who are not eligible for Autologous Stem Cell Transplant (ASCT), had superior efficacy compared to rituximab in the same population.

Background: - People who have some kinds of cancer can benefit from donated bone marrow stem cells. These stem cells help produce healthy bone marrow and slow or stop the spread of abnormal cells. However, stem cells transplants do not always work. Also, they may have serious side effects that can cause illness or death. The Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplant Program is studying methods to make stem cell transplant procedures safer and more effective. Objectives: - To test a new procedure that may improve the success and decrease the side effects of stem cell transplants. Eligibility: Individuals 10 to 75 years of age who have a life-threatening illness that may require a stem cell transplant. Healthy siblings who are able to provide stem cells for transplant. Design: Participants will be screened with a medical history, physical exam, and blood and urine tests. Donor procedures: Stem cell donors will start by having apheresis to donate white blood cells. Donors will receive filgrastim shots for 5 days to help move stem cells into the blood for collection. Donors will have another round of apheresis to donate the stem cells for transplant. Recipient procedures: Before the transplant, recipients will have radiation twice a day for 3 days and chemotherapy for 7 days. After the radiation and chemotherapy, recipients will receive the stem cells provided by the donor. After the transplant, recipients will receive the white blood cells provided by the donor. Recipients will be monitored closely for 4 months to study the success of the transplant. They will have more followup visits at least yearly thereafter. Recipients will have a research apheresis prior to transplant and at 3 months.

This is a two-arm, open-label study to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and assess the safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and preliminary efficacy of BMN 673 in patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) and Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL). Arm 1 will enroll patients with either AML or MDS; Arm 2 will enroll patients with either CLL or MCL.

The purpose of this study is to determine the dose of the bispecific T cell engager blinatumomab (MT103) in pediatric and adolescent patients with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and to assess whether this dose of blinatumomab is effective.

The purpose of this research study is to compare the survival rates of patients with better risk disease undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) to the survival rates reported in the medical literature of similar patients undergoing reduced intensity HSCT from matched related donors.

Study Hypothesis. combination chemotherapy with Clofarabine VP16 and Cyclophosphamide is able to induce remission in resistant/refractory acute leukemias in pediatric. Forty children with relapsed or refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) or Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) entered the study and received the association of clofarabine (40 mg/m2/day) in combination with etoposide (100 mg/m2/day) and Cyclophosphamide (440 mg/m2/day) in 1 or 2 induction cycles End point were complete remission (CR)or CR without platelet recovery (CRp) and toxicity

This is a phase I/II study of highly selected donor lymphocyte infusions in patients undergoing HLA-haploidentical hemopoietic stem cell transplantation. Patients will be offered "pre-emptive" NK-DLI early after HSCT. Three schedules of NK-cell infusion will be studied: Basel patients (adult and pediatric) will receive NK-DLI on days +40 and +100 (pre-emptive-late); Frankfurt patients (pediatric) will receive NK-DLI on days +3, +40, and +100 (pre-emptive early). Patients not receiving pre-emptive NK-DLI with loss in donor chimerism or with evidence of minimal residual disease will be offered "therapeutic" NK-DLI.

This research is being done because treatment options are very limited and usually unsuccessful for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in older individuals, or younger people with disease that has relapsed and/or proven resistant to standard therapy. Subjects are invited to participate in this study that will examine the use of three drugs called Sorafenib (Nexavar), Vorinostat (Zolinza) and Bortezomib (Velcade) for treating acute myeloid leukemia.