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Autologous Transplantation for Multiple Myeloma

This study has been completed.
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Information provided by:
University of Bologna
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00378222
First received: September 18, 2006
Last updated: NA
Last verified: September 2006
History: No changes posted

September 18, 2006
September 18, 2006
January 1996
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Complete or near Complete Response Rate
Same as current
No Changes Posted
  • Relapse-free Survival
  • Event-free Survival
  • Overall Survival
Same as current
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Autologous Transplantation for Multiple Myeloma
A Prospective, Randomized Study of Single Versus Double Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation for Multiple Myeloma

The present study was designed in an attempt to prospectively evaluate in a randomized fashion whether further cytotoxic dose intensification, as delivered with two sequential autologous stem-cell transplantations, improved the outcome of younger patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma in comparison with a single autologous transplantation.

Following demonstration that single autologous transplantation for the treatment of younger patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma prolonged overall survival in comparison with conventional chemotherapy, double autologous transplantation was tested, initially in refractory myeloma and subsequently to include also patients with newly diagnosed disease. To explore the role of double autologous stem-cell transplantation as part of up-front therapy for multiple myeloma, in 1996 we launched a prospective, randomized trial comparing a single course of stem-cell-supported melphalan with the same regimen followed, after three to six months, by a second autologous transplantation in support of melphalan and busulfan. The study was designed to detect a 15 percent increase in complete or near complete response rate with double transplants compared to a single transplantation. With a 2-sided significance level α = 0.05 and a power 1-β = 0.80, 162 patients were required in each treatment arm of the study to detect a statistically significant increase in complete or near complete response rate from 30% in the single-transplant arm to 45% in the double-transplant arm. Primary study endpoint was the complete or near complete response rate. Secondary study endpoints were relapse-free survival, event-free survival and overall survival. The recruitment target was 324 patients.
Interventional
Phase 3
Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Multiple Myeloma
Procedure: Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation
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Cavo M et al. Superiority of Double over Single Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation as First-Line Therapy for Multiple Myeloma. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts) 2004 104: Abstract 536

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
 
Completed
324
November 2005
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Inclusion Criteria:

  • Previously untreated
  • Younger than 61 years
  • Symptomatic myeloma
  • Measurable disease
  • Fit to receive high-dose chemotherapy

Exclusion Criteria:

  • M-GUS
  • Solitary plasmacytoma
  • Plasma cell leukemia
  • AL Amyloidosis
Both
18 Years to 60 Years
No
Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
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NCT00378222
BO96
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University of Bologna
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Principal Investigator: Michele Cavo, MD Institute of Hematology and Medical Oncology - University of Bologna
University of Bologna
September 2006

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