💬In plain words
What the trial is, and whether it could suit you
This study is designed as a multicenter, randomized, parallel groups, open-label, phase 3 study in subjects with untreated newly diagnoses Multiple Myeloma eligible for ASCT.
824 patients will be enrolled in this study from approximately 70 study sites.
The 2 parts in the Treatment Phase are described below.
Part 1: Induction/ASCT/Consolidation Phase (1:1 Randomization)
After the screening period, patients will be randomly allocated (1:1) to either:
* Arm A (standard of care arm): standard induction therapy with 4 cycles of D-VRd, followed by HDCT (Melphalan) + ASCT, D-VRd consolidation therapy
* Arm B (experimental arm): standard induction therapy with 4 cycles of D-VRd, followed by elranatamab and lenalidomide consolidation therapy.
Part 2: Maintenance Phase (1:1 Re-randomization) Patients will be re-randomized (1:1) and will enter the Maintenance Phase upon completion of consoli
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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Male or female subjects, aged over 18 but \< 70 years old
2. Patients have provided voluntary written informed consent before performing any study-related procedure.
3. Patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) eligible for high-dose chemotherapy (melphalan) and autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT).
4. Patients with documented symptomatic NDMM according to CRAB and/or SLIM criteria, with measurable disease as defined by:
* Presence of ≥10% monoclonal plasma cells in the bone marrow OR presence of a biopsy-proven plasmacytoma. In addition, the patient must have ≥1 of the following myeloma defining events:
\- Hypercalcemia: serum calcium \>0.25 mmol/L (\>1 mg/dL) higher than upper limits of normal (ULN) or \>2.75 mmol/L (\>11 mg/dL).
\- Renal insufficiency: creatinine clearance \< 40mL/min/1.73 m2 using CKD-EPI or serum creatinine \>177 μmol/L (\>2 mg/dL).
\- Anemia: hemoglobin \>2 g/dL below the lower limit of normal (LLN) or hemoglobin \<10 g/dL.
\- Bone lesions: ≥1 osteolytic lesion on skeletal radiography, CT or PET-CT.
\- Clonal bone marrow plasma cell percentage ≥60%.
\- Serum involved/uninvolved free light chain ratio ≥100.
* More than 1 focal lesion (≥5 mm diameter) on MRI.
* Measurable disease as defined by serum M-component ≥5 g/L, and/or urine M-component ≥200 mg/24 h and/or serum FLC ≥100 mg/L.
5. Patient has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) ≤2.
6. Patients must have clinical laboratory values (within 15 days of initiating induction therapy) as follows:
• Hemoglobin ≥7.5 g/dL (≥5 mmol/L). Prior red blood cell (RBC) transfusion or the use of recombinant human erythropoietin is permitted.
• Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1.0 G/L (granulocyte colony stimulating factor \[G-CSF\] use is permitted).
• Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤3 x ULN.
• Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3 x ULN.
• Total bilirubin ≤3 x ULN (except in subjects with congenital bilirubinemia, such as Gilbert syndrome, that require a direct bilirubin ≤3 x ULN).
• Calculated creatinine clearance ≥40 mL/min/1.73 m².
* Albumin corrected serum calcium ≤14 mg/dL (\<3.5 mmol/L); or free-ionized calcium ≤6.5 mg/dL (≤1.6 mmol/L).
* Platelet count ≥50 Giga/L for subjects who have \<50% of bone marrow nucleated cells as plasma cells. If not, platelet count \>30 G/L (platelets transfusions done during the 15 days before initiating induction therapy are not permitted).
7. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test during the screening period before randomization AND within 3 days before of initiating induction therapy.
8. Patients must be willing and able to comply with scheduled appointments, treatment plan, laboratory tests, and other study procedures (such as blood transfusion if required, ASCT, IVIG prophylaxis, etc.).
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Subjects previously treated with any systemic therapy for multiple myeloma. Patients are allowed corticosteroids before or during screening, as far as the total dose received is not \>160 mg of dexamethasone (or equivalent) within 14 days before initiating induction therapy. Patients with concurrent radiotherapy within the 14 days before initiating induction therapy are not eligible (If possible, in these cases, enrolment should be deferred).
2. Subject with ongoing Grade ≥ 3 peripheral sensory or motor neuropathy.
3. Subject with history of GBS or GBS variants, or history of any Grade ≥3 peripheral motor polyneuropathy.
4. Subject with a current diagnosis of primary amyloidosis, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, smoldering multiple myeloma, or solitary plasmacytoma.
5. Subject has a diagnosis of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, or other conditions in which IgM M-protein is present in the absence of a clonal plasma cell infiltration with lytic bone lesions.
6. The subject has had plasmapheresis within 14 days of initiating induction therapy.
7. Subject with clinical signs of meningeal involvement of multiple myeloma.
8. The subject has plasma cell leukemia (by WHO criterion: ≥5% of plasma cells in the peripheral blood) or POEMS syndrome (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal protein, and skin changes).
9. Subject has any concurrent medical or psychiatric condition or disease (e.g., active systemic infection, uncontrolled diabetes, acute diffuse infiltrative pulmonary disease) that is likely to interfere with the study procedures or results, or that in the opinion of the investigator, would constitute a hazard for participating in this study.
10. Subject has clinically significant cardiac disease, including:
• Subject has had myocardial infarction within 1 year before initiating induction therapy, or currently has an unstable or uncontrolled disease/condition related to or affecting cardiac function (e.g., unstable angina, congestive heart failure, New York Heart Association \[NYHA\] class III IV).
* Subject has uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia (common terminology criteria for adverse events \[CTCAE\] version 4 grade ≥2) or clinically significant electrocardiography (ECG) abnormalities.
* Subject with a baseline QT interval as corrected by Fridericia's formula (QTcF) \>470 msec (12-lead ECG).
11. Subjects taking systemic treatment with strong inhibitors of CYP1A2 (fluvoxamine, enoxacin), strong inhibitors of CYP3A (clarithromycin, telithromycin, itraconazole, voriconazole, ketoconazole, nefazodone, posaconazole) or strong CYP3A inducers (rifampin, rifapentine, rifabutin, carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital), or use of Ginkgo biloba or St. John's wort (millepertuis) within the 14 days before initiating induction therapy.
12. Known intolerance to steroids, mannitol, pregelatinized starch, sodium stearyl fumarate, histidine (as base and hydrochloride salt), arginine hydrochloride, poloxamer 188, sucrose or any of the other components of st