Eligibility Module

Eligibility Module

The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.

Eligibility Module path is as follows:

Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module

Eligibility Module


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NCT ID: NCT03242460
Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion Criteria: * Patients must have evaluable multiple myeloma with at least one of the following (within 21 days of starting treatment) * Serum M-protein ≥ 0.5g/dL, or * In subjects without detectable serum M-protein, Urine M-protein ≥ 200mg/24 hour, or serum free light chai (sFLC) \> 100mg/L (involved light chain) and an abnormal kappa/Lambda ratio * Patients were ineligible for autologous stem cell transplantation * Must be relapse refractory to initial therapy with bortezomib, melphalan and prednison and then lenalidomide plus dexamethasone. * Refractoriness is defined as disease progression on treatment or progression within 6 months after the last dose of a given therapy. Relapse is defined according to the criteria of IMWG * Males and females ≥ 18 years of age or \> country's legal age for adult consent * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of 0 to 2 * Patients must meet the following clinical laboratory criteria with 21 days of starting treatment: * Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1,000/mm3 and platelet ≥ 50,000/mm3 (≥ 30,000/mm3 if myeloma involvement in the bone marrow is \>50%) * Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x the upper limit of the normal range (ULN). Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3 x ULN. * Calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 30mL/min or creatinine \< 3mg/dL. * Written informed consent in accordance with federal, local and institutional guidelines Exclusion Criteria: * Female patients who are lactating or pregnant * Multiple Myeloma of IgM subtype * Glucocorticoid therapy (prednisolone \> 30mg/day or equivalent) within 14 days prior to informed consent obtained * POEMS syndrome, plasma cell leukemia or circulating plasma cells ≥ 2 x 109/L, Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinaemia, or Patients with known amyloidosis * Peripheral neuropathy grade \> 2 * Chemotherapy with approved or investigation anticancer therapeutics within 21 days prior to starting pomalidomide treatment * Focal radiation therapy within 7 days prior to start of pomalidomide. Radiation therapy to an extended field involving a significant volume of bone marrow within 21 days prior to start of pomalidomide * Immunotherapy (excluding steroids) 21 days prior to start of pomalidomide * Major surgery (excluding kyphoplasty) within 28 days prior to start of pomalidomide * Active congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association \[NYHA\] Class III or IV), symptomatic ischaemia, or conduction abnormalities uncontrolled by conventional intervention. Myocardial infarction within 4 months prior to informed consent obtained * Known HIV seropositive, hepatitis C infection, and/or hepatitis B (except for patients with hepatitis B surface antigen or core antibody receiving and responding to antiviral therapy directed at hepatitis B: these patients are allowed) * Second malignancy within the past 3 years except: * Adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer * Carcinoma in situ of the cervix * Breast carcinoma in situ with full surgical resection * Patients with steroid or lenalidomide hypersensitivity * Patients with pleural effusions requiring thoracentesis or ascites requiring paracentesis within 14 days prior to starting pomalidomide treatment * Any clinically significant medical disease or psychiatric condition that, in the investigator's opinion, may interfere with protocol adherence or a patient's ability to give informed consent
Healthy Volunteers: False
Sex: ALL
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Study: NCT03242460
Study Brief:
Protocol Section: NCT03242460