A Phase 2 interventional study of Carfilzomib and Cyclophosphamide in MULTIPLE MYELOMA (MM), sponsored by Mario Boccadoro. Completed at 1 site in Italy. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-04-14.
Sponsored by Mario Boccadoro · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
This study will evaluate the safety and the efficacy of carfilzomib combined with cyclophosphamide and dexamethasone (CCyd) or lenalidomide and dexamethasone (CRd) followed by autologous transplantation ASCT or 12 cycles of carfilzomib combined with dexamethasone and lenalidomide for patients eligible for ASCT with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. As a secondary endpoint this study will evaluate the best maintenance treatment between lenalidomide and lenalidomide combined with carfilzomib.
Four hundred seventy-seven patients, males and females aged > 18 years, enrolled in several sites, will take part in this study.
The duration of the study is approximately 5 years.
3,760 studies on the registry are indexed under Multiple Myeloma; 769 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 477 is above the median of 41 across 3,005 interventional studies indexed under Multiple Myeloma.
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Age ≥ 18 years Newly diagnosed MM based on standard CRAB criteria (see appendix B). Patient \< 65 years eligible for . Patient has according to IMWG (International Myeloma Working Group) criteria.
Patient has given voluntary written . Patient agrees to use acceptable methods for . Patient has a performance status ≥ 60%
Pretreatment clinical laboratory values within 30 days of enrolment:
count ≥50 x 109/L (≥30 x 109 /L if myeloma involvement in the bone marrow is > 50%) (ANC) ≥ 1 x 109/L without the use of growth factors Corrected serum calcium ≤14 mg/dL (3.5 mmol/L) (ALT): ≤ 3 x the Upper Limit Normal () Total : ≤ 2 x the ULN Calculated or measured : ≥ 30 mL/minute. ≥40%. 2-D transthoracic echocardiogram (ECHO) is the preferred method of evaluation. Multigated Acquisition Scan (MUGA) is acceptable if ECHO is not available ≥ 3 months
Exclusion Criteria:
Previous treatment with anti-myeloma therapy (does not include radiotherapy, bisphosphonates, or a single short course of \< to the equivalent of dexamethasone 40 mg/day for 4 days) Patients with non-secretory MM unless serum free-light chains are present and the ratio is abnormal or a plasmocytoma with minimum largest diameters of > 2 cm Patients ineligible for transplantation Pregnant or lactating females
Presence of:
Clinical active infectious hepatitis type A, B, C or Acute active infection requiring antibiotics or infiltrative pulmonary disease Myocardial infarction or unstable angina ≤ 4 months or other heart disease Peripheral neuropathy or neuropathic pain grade 2 or higher, as defined by National Cancer Institute Common Toxicity Criteria (NCI CTC) 4.0 Known history of allergy to Captisol ® (a cyclodextrin derivative used to solubilize carfilzomib) to any of the required drugs or supportive treatments Invasive within the past 3 years Serious medical condition, laboratory abnormality or psychiatric illness that prevented the subject from the enrolment or place the subject at unacceptable risk.
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.
The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.
Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Allogeneic and autologous transplant
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Measurable disease
The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.
The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Karnofsky performance status (KPS)
A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.
Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Platelets
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Creatinine clearance (CrCl)
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Life expectancy
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Clinically significant
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraindication
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Carfilzomib Cyclophosphamide and Dexamethasone administered for 4 28-day cycles. This treatment will be followed by autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). Carfilzomib Cyclophosphamide and Dexamethasone administered for 4 28-day cycles, as consolidation treatment. After the end of consolidation all patients will be randomized to receive: Lenalidomide or Lenalidomide and Carfilzomib until any sign of progression or intolerance.
Drug: Carfilzomib · Drug: Cyclophosphamide · Drug: Dexamethasone
Carfilzomib Lenalidomide and Dexamethasone administered for 4 28-day cycles. This treatment will be followed by autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). Carfilzomib Cyclophosphamide and Dexamethasone administered for 4 28-day cycles, as consolidation treatment. After the end of consolidation all patients will be randomized to receive: Lenalidomide or Lenalidomide and Carfilzomib until any sign of progression or intolerance.
Drug: Carfilzomib · Drug: Lenalidomide · Drug: Dexamethasone
Carfilzomib Lenalidomide and Dexamethasone administered for 4 28-day cycles. Stem cells collection will be performed. Carfilzomib Lenalidomide and Dexamethasone administered for 8 28-day cycles. After that all patients will be randomized to receive: Lenalidomide or Lenalidomide and Carfilzomib until any sign of progression or intolerance.
Drug: Carfilzomib · Drug: Lenalidomide · Drug: Dexamethasone
Also known as: Revlimid
Efficacy in term of at least Very Good Partial Response (VGPR)
The efficacy, in term of at least VGPR, of the combination of carfilzomib, dexamethasone with cyclophosphamide or lenalidomide after 4 cycles of induction treatment in newly diagnosed MM patients eligible for ASCT.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
sCR rate
the stringent complete response (sCR) rate in the 3 arms after complete primary therapy (induction, ASCT and consolidation for the transplant arms and after 12 cycles in the long treatment arm) in an explorative manner.
Time frame: up to 1 year
Safety as incidence of grade 3/4 adverse events
the safety in the 3 induction/consolidation arms and in the 2 maintenance arms.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Survival
the survival in the 3 induction/consolidation arms and in the 2 maintenance arms.
Time frame: Up to 5 years
Correlation between tumor response and outcome with baseline prognostic factors.
Time frame: up to 5 years
Minimal Residual Disease (MRD)
Minimal Residual Disease
Time frame: up to 5 years
Survival after relapse
the survival after relapse
Time frame: up to 7 years
The record gives a start of Feb 2015, a primary completion of Oct 2016 and a completion of Mar 2026. It does not say whether these dates are actual or estimated.
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Studies of the drugs tested here: Cyclophosphamide · Lenalidomide
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