Clinical trial NCT03421132: Multiple Myeloma Molecular Monitoring Study
Official title: The Terry Fox Pan-Canadian Multiple Myeloma Molecular Monitoring Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Conditions: Multiple Myeloma
Lead sponsor: Horizon Health Network
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-02-05
Enrollment: 96
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 19
Maximum age (years): 99
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients will be recruited through hospital oncology clinics across Canada

Brief summary: The investigators will track 250 multiple myeloma patients across Canada over time, using new lab tests to evaluate their blood and bone marrow, as they receive standard of care treatment. The main hypothesis is that these tests will allow clinicians to better diagnose and manage multiple myeloma, improving patients' quality of life overall.

Detailed description: Multiple myeloma (MM) is a deadly cancer of the bone marrow that is challenging to manage and treat: the drugs that are currently available attack the cancer in the same way for everyone, but each patient has different types of MM cancer cells and different family traits that predict better or worse outcomes. As well, the ways in which clinicians test to see if the cancer is in remission are not very good at detecting small numbers of cancer cells still in the bone marrow after treatment - and which will, sooner or later cause the patient to get sick again. The goal of the M4 study is to improve MM patients' survival and quality of life over time, by finding better ways of a) characterizing each patient's experience with the disease, and b) identifying and tracking the small numbers of cells that remain after treatment.

The investigators plan to track 250 patients across Canada over time, who are getting treatment for multiple myeloma. While they are getting treatment, the research team will evaluate samples of their blood and bone marrow with newer, more precise laboratory tests. Participants will also be asked to take part in two scans of their bodies during their treatment. The investigators hypothesize that these tests can help clinicians make better treatment recommendations to patients.

The investigators will look at whether one test is better than another, or if a combination of these tests is needed to have the best information possible to make treatment decisions. At the same time, the research will also explore how and why some patients' cancer becomes resistant to the treatments over time, and how myeloma cells are able to start growing again after treatment. The research team will also collect information on how each patient's health and quality of life changes during and after treatment, and what are the associated costs with these new approaches - to both the healthcare system overall, and to patients.

Once the five-year research program is complete, it is hoped that clinicians will have a new, proven and affordable process of combining these new laboratory tests with the current clinical approach, to create new options to evaluate and treat multiple myeloma.

It is the overall goal that this research will make a difference, right away and across the world, in how doctors treat multiple myeloma, in how it is studied by scientists, and in how patients advocate for their own healthcare.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Ability to give informed consent
* Diagnosed with active multiple myeloma
* Consented to participation in Myeloma Canada Research Network (MCRN) database project
* Previously untreated and eligible for autologous stem-cell transplantation (ASCT)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Ineligible for ASCT
* Does not consent to participate in MCRN database project

Primary outcomes:
measure: Sensitivity of Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) Assays
timeFrame: 100 days post-treatment
measure: Sensitivity of Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) Assays
timeFrame: 12 months post-maintenance therapy
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Comparison of Sensitivity of MRD Assays with PET scans
timeFrame: 12 months post-maintenance therapy
measure: Predicting Progression-Free Survival Using MRD Assessment
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: Predicting Overall Survival Using MRD Assessment
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) Gained
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: Incremental Cost-Effectiveness of MRD Testing
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: Productivity Costs Associated with MRD Testing
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: Multiple Myeloma Patients' Quality of Life (QOL)
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: Correlative Study: Sensitivity and Specificity of Drug Resistance Assays
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: Correlative Study: Circulating Tumor DNA
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: Correlative Study: Describing Myeloma Progenitor Populations
timeFrame: 5 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Calgary
country: Canada
facility: Tom Baker Cancer Centre
state: Alberta
city: Edmonton
country: Canada
facility: Cross Cancer Institute
state: Alberta
city: Vancouver
country: Canada
facility: Vancouver General Hospital
state: British Columbia
city: Winnipeg
country: Canada
facility: CancerCare Manitoba
state: Manitoba
city: Saint John
country: Canada
facility: Saint John Regional Hospital (Horizon Health Network)
state: New Brunswick
city: Halifax
country: Canada
facility: Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
state: Nova Scotia
city: Hamilton
country: Canada
facility: Buland Mangukia
state: Ontario
city: Toronto
country: Canada
facility: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
state: Ontario
city: Montréal
country: Canada
facility: McGill University Health Centre
state: Quebec
Study officials:
affiliation: Horizon Health Network
name: Anthony J Reiman, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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