A Phase 2 interventional study of Biospecimen Collection and Bone Marrow Biopsy in Recurrent Multiple Myeloma and Refractory Multiple Myeloma, sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI). Recruiting at 32 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-04.
Sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
This phase II trial compares the effect of the combination of daratumumab-hyaluronidase (daratumumab) and teclistamab to the usual treatment of daratumumab, pomalidomide, dexamethasone or daratumumab, carfilzomib and dexamethasone in treating patients with multiple myeloma that has not responded to previous treatment (refractory) or that has come back after a period of improvement (relapsed). Daratumumab is in a class of medications called monoclonal antibodies. It binds to a protein called CD38, which is found on some types of immune cells and cancer cells, including myeloma cells. Daratumumab may block CD38 and help the immune system kill cancer cells. Teclistamab is a bispecific antibody that can bind to two different antigens at the same time. Teclistamab binds to B-cell maturation antigen, a protein found on some B-cells and myeloma cells, and CD3 on T-cells (a type of white blood cell) and may interfere with the ability of cancer cells to grow and spread. Pomalidomide is in a class of medications called immunomodulatory agents. It works by helping the immune system kill cancer cells and by helping the bone marrow to produce normal blood cells. Dexamethasone is in a class of medications called corticosteroids. It is used to reduce inflammation and lower the body's immune response to help lessen the side effects of chemotherapy drugs. Carfilzomib, a type of proteasome inhibitor, blocks the action of enzymes called proteasomes, which may help keep cancer cells from growing and may kill them. Giving daratumumab and teclistamab may be more effective than the usual treatment of daratumumab, pomalidomide, dexamethasone or daratumumab, carfilzomib and dexamethasone in reducing myeloma cells to undetectable levels in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. To determine whether patients with high-risk multiple myeloma (MM) that is refractory or in first relapse randomized to daratumumab and recombinant human hyaluronidase (daratumumab-hyaluronidase) in combination with teclistamab (DT) have superior efficacy measured by minimal residual disease (MRD)-negative status after 6 cycles of therapy compared to investigator's choice of daratumumab-hyaluronidase, pomalidomide and dexamethasone (DPd) or daratumumab-hyaluronidase, carfilzomib and dexamethasone (DKd).
SECONDARY CLINICAL OBJECTIVES:
I. To compare toxicity rates up to 6 cycles and overall on treatment between arms.
II. To compare progression-free and overall survival between arms. III. To evaluate best response per International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) criteria after 6 cycles and overall on treatment.
IV. To evaluate safety and tolerability.
EXPLORATORY CLINICAL OBJECTIVES:
I. To evaluate treatment exposure and adherence. II. To evaluate time to progression and event free survival. III. To evaluate association of MRD-negative status after 6 cycles with best response per IMWG criteria and time to event outcomes.
EXPLORATORY THROMBOEMBOLISM RISK OBJECTIVES:
I. To estimate cumulative incidence of venous and arterial thromboembolic events.
II. To calculate IMPEDE and SAVED risk scores at baseline and at time of venous thromboembolic event.
III. To validate IMPEDE and SAVED risk stratification models. IV. To describe thromboprophylaxis strategies on treatment and assess the association with venous and arterial thromboembolic events.
V. To estimate incidence of clinically significant (major) bleeding events and assess association with thromboprophylaxis strategy.
VI. To assess the association of venous and arterial thromboembolic events and overall survival.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.
ARM A: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 treatments per investigator's choice.
Treatment I (DPD): Patients receive daratumumab-hyaluronidase subcutaneously (SC) over 3-5 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of cycles 1 and 2, on days 1 and 15 of cycles 3-6, then on day 1 of subsequent cycles. Patients also receive pomalidomide orally (PO) on days 1-21 of each cycle, dexamethasone PO or intravenously (IV) on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Treatment II (DKD): Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 options for carfilzomib.
OPTION 1: Patients receive daratumumab-hyaluronidase SC over 3-5 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of cycles 1 and 2, on days 1 and 15 of cycles 3-6, then on day 1 of subsequent cycles, carfilzomib IV on days 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16 of each cycle, and dexamethasone PO or IV on days 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
OPTION 2: Patients receive daratumumab-hyaluronidase SC over 3-5 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of cycles 1 and 2, on days 1 and 15 of cycles 3-6 and on day 1 of subsequent cycles, carfilzomib IV on days 1, 8, and 15 of each cycle, and dexamethasone PO or IV on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM B:
Patients receive daratumumab-hyaluronidase SC over 3-5 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of cycles 1 and 2, on days 1 and 15 of cycles 3-6 and on day 1 of subsequent cycles. Patients also receive teclistamab SC on day 2, 4, 8, 15 and 22 of cycle 1, on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of cycle 2, on days 1 and 15 of cycles 3-6 and then on day 1 of subsequent cycles. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Additionally, patients undergo urine and blood sample collection, bone marrow biopsy, and fludeoxyglucose F-18 (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) throughout the study.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 months for up to year 2, every 6 months up to year 5 then yearly for up to 10 years from randomization.
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Inclusion Criteria:
Patient must have received only one
Patient must have high-risk multiple myeloma (HR-MM) as defined by one of the following either at diagnosis or at refractory status or at first relapse:
Patient must have as defined by having one or more of the following, obtained within 28 days prior to randomization:
Patient must have serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP), urine protein electrophoresis (UPEP), and serum FLC assays along with bone marrow or aspirate performed within 28 days prior to randomization
Calculated > 30 mL/min (=\< 28 days prior to protocol randomization)
Patient must not be pregnant or breast-feeding due to the potential harm to an unborn fetus and possible risk for adverse events in nursing infants with the treatment regimens being used
Patient must not have moderate or severe persistent asthma within 2 years prior to randomization
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.
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.
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.
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.
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
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 other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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.
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.
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 protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
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.
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.
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.
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).
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 condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
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.
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
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.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
ECOG performance status
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Line of therapy
A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Relapsed and refractory
Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.
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.
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.
Biopsy and archival tissue
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hypersensitivity
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
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.
Excipients
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hemoglobin (Hb)
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
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.
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.
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.
Childbearing potential
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Postmenopausal
Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).
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.
Autoimmune disease
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
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.
Hepatitis B tests
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis C tests
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
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.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
NYHA class (heart failure)
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
FEV1
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Patients receive daratumumab-hyaluronidase SC over 3-5 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of cycles 1 and 2, on days 1 and 15 of cycles 3-6, then on day 1 of subsequent cycles. Patients also receive pomalidomide PO on days 1-21 of each cycle, dexamethasone PO or IV on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Additionally, patients undergo urine and blood sample collection, bone marrow biopsy, and FDG PET/CT throughout the study.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Procedure: Bone Marrow Biopsy · Procedure: Computed Tomography · Drug: Daratumumab and Recombinant Human Hyaluronidase · Drug: Dexamethasone · Procedure: FDG-Positron Emission Tomography · Drug: Pomalidomide
Patients receive daratumumab-hyaluronidase SC over 3-5 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of cycles 1 and 2, on days 1 and 15 of cycles 3-6, then on day 1 of subsequent cycles, carfilzomib IV on days 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16 of each cycle, and dexamethasone PO or IV on days 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Additionally, patients undergo urine and blood sample collection, bone marrow biopsy, and FDG PET/CT throughout the study.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Procedure: Bone Marrow Biopsy · Drug: Carfilzomib · Procedure: Computed Tomography · Drug: Daratumumab and Recombinant Human Hyaluronidase · Drug: Dexamethasone · Procedure: FDG-Positron Emission Tomography
Patients receive daratumumab-hyaluronidase SC over 3-5 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of cycles 1 and 2, on days 1 and 15 of cycles 3-6 and on day 1 of subsequent cycles, carfilzomib IV on days 1, 8, and 15 of each cycle, and dexamethasone PO or IV on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Additionally, patients undergo urine and blood sample collection, bone marrow biopsy, and FDG PET/CT throughout the study.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Procedure: Bone Marrow Biopsy · Drug: Carfilzomib · Procedure: Computed Tomography · Drug: Daratumumab and Recombinant Human Hyaluronidase · Drug: Dexamethasone · Procedure: FDG-Positron Emission Tomography
Patients receive daratumumab-hyaluronidase SC over 3-5 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of cycles 1 and 2, on days 1 and 15 of cycles 3-6 and on day 1 of subsequent cycles. Patients also receive teclistamab SC on day 2, 4, 8, 15 and 22 of cycle 1, on days 1, 8, 15, and 22 of cycle 2, on days 1 and 15 of cycles 3-6 and then on day 1 of subsequent cycles. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Additionally, patients undergo urine and blood sample collection, bone marrow biopsy, and FDG PET/CT throughout the study.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Procedure: Bone Marrow Biopsy · Procedure: Computed Tomography · Drug: Daratumumab and Recombinant Human Hyaluronidase · Procedure: FDG-Positron Emission Tomography · Drug: Teclistamab
Undergo urine and blood sample collection
Also known as: Biological Sample Collection, Biospecimen Collected, Sample Collection, Specimen Collection
Undergo bone marrow biopsy
Also known as: Biopsy of Bone Marrow, Biopsy, Bone Marrow
Given IV
Also known as: Carfilnat, CFZ, Kyprolis, PR 171, PR-171, PR171
Undergo FDG PET/CT
Also known as: CAT, CAT Scan, Computed Axial Tomography, Computerized Axial Tomography, Computerized axial tomography (procedure), Computerized Tomography, Computerized Tomography (CT) scan, CT, CT Scan, Diagnostic CAT Scan, Diagnostic CAT Scan Service Type, tomography
Drug page: Daratumumab and Hyaluronidase-fihj
Given SC
Also known as: DARA Co-formulated with rHuPH20, DARA/rHuPH20, Daratumumab + rHuPH20, Daratumumab and Hyaluronidase, Daratumumab and Hyaluronidase-fihj, Daratumumab and vorhyaluronidase, Daratumumab and Vorhyaluronidase Alfa, Daratumumab with rHuPH20, Daratumumab-rHuPH20, Daratumumab/Hyaluronidase-fihj, Daratumumab/rHuPH20 Co-formulation, Darzalex Faspro, Darzalex/rHuPH20, Darzquro, HuMax-CD38-rHuPH20, Recombinant Human Hyaluronidase Mixed with Daratumumab
Given PO or IV
Also known as: Aacidexam, Adexone, Aknichthol Dexa, Alba-Dex, Alin, Alin Depot, Alin Oftalmico, Amplidermis, Anemul mono, Auricularum, Auxiloson, Baycadron, Baycuten, Baycuten N, Cortidexason, Cortisumman, Decacort, Decadrol, Decadron, Decadron DP, Decalix, Decameth, Decasone R.p., Dectancyl, Dekacort, Deltafluorene, Deronil, Desamethasone, Desameton, Dexa-Mamallet, Dexa-Rhinosan, Dexa-Scheroson, Dexa-sine, Dexacortal, Dexacortin, Dexafarma, Dexafluorene, Dexalocal, Dexamecortin, Dexameth, Dexamethasone Intensol, Dexamethasonum, Dexamonozon, Dexapos, Dexinoral, Dexone, Dinormon, Dxevo, Fluorodelta, Fortecortin, Gammacorten, Hemady, Hexadecadrol, Hexadrol, LenaDex, Lokalison-F, Loverine, Methylfluorprednisolone, Millicorten, Mymethasone, Orgadrone, Spersadex, TaperDex, Visumetazone, ZoDex
Undergo FDG PET/CT
Also known as: FDG, FDG-PET, FDG-PET Imaging
Given PO
Also known as: 4-Aminothalidomide, Actimid, CC 4047, CC-4047, CC4047, Imnovid, Pomalyst
Given SC
Also known as: JNJ 64007957, JNJ-64007957, JNJ64007957, Teclistamab-cqyv, Tecvayli
Minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity
Will be determined by the Adaptive Biotechnologies clonoSEQ assay result. Analysis will be performed using Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel (CMH) test, stratified on prior anti-CD38 antibody therapy and investigator's choice of therapy if assigned to Arm A. MRD-negative status requires both MRD negativity and achievement of complete response. Will be summarized using descriptive statistics by treatment arm with two-sided exact binomial 80% confidence intervals (CI), Clopper-Pearson. The corresponding CMH odds ratio (OR) estimate with an 80% CI, and p-value will be reported. Logistic regression will be used to assess the treatment effect within subgroups including but not limited to age 70 status, prior anti-CD38 antibody therapy and high-risk by fluorescence in situ hybridization status.
Time frame: After 6 cycles of treatment (cycle length = 28 days), assessed at 6 months
Incidence of adverse events (AEs)
Will be graded according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) and classified by Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) system organ class. Maximum grade toxicity by AE type will be tabulated. Summaries (count and percentages) will be reported by AE type by arm.
Time frame: Up to 6 cycles (cycle length = 28 days) and overall assessed up to 10 years
Incidence of grade 3 or higher hematologic and/or non-hematologic AEs
Will be graded according to the NCI CTCAE and classified by MedDRA system organ class. Maximum grade toxicity by AE type will be tabulated. Summaries (count and percentages) will be reported by AE type by arm. Rates of maximum grade 3 or higher (including grade 5) non-hematologic, hematologic and overall toxicity will be calculated along with 90% CIs. AEs will be further analyzed by arm in subsets of serious AEs per protocol, lethal AEs and treatment-emergent AEs status.
Time frame: Up to 6 cycles (cycle length = 28 days) and overall assessed up to 10 years
Progression-free survival (PFS)
PFS will be estimated in the treated population using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared between arms using the stratified log-rank test. Stratified cox proportional hazards (PH) regression will be used to produce the treatment hazard ratio (HR) along with the 90% CI, provided PH assumption is valid. Sensitivity analyses excluding untreated patients will be conducted.
Time frame: From randomization until the earlier of progression or death due to any cause, assessed up to 10 years
Overall survival (OS)
OS will be estimated in the treated population using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared between arms using the stratified log-rank test. Stratified cox PH regression will be used to produce the treatment HR along with the 90% CI, provided PH assumption is valid. Sensitivity analyses excluding untreated patients will be conducted.
Time frame: From randomization to death due to any cause, assessed up to 10 years
Response rates
Will be reported by treatment arm. Rates of stringent complete response (CR) or better, very good partial response (VGPR) or better and partial response (PR) or better will be computed along with 90% CIs in all treated patients. Stratified CMH test will be used to test the difference in VGPR or better rates between arms. Sensitivity analyses excluding untreated patients will be conducted.
Time frame: After 6 cycles of treatment (cycle length = 28 days) and overall, assessed up to 10 years
Event-free survival
Time frame: From randomization until the earlier of non-protocol therapy, progression, or death due to any cause, assessed up to 10 years
Time to progression
Time frame: From randomization to time of documented progression or censored at date of last disease evaluation if alive or death not due to disease progression, assessed up to 10 years
Duration of treatment
Time frame: From randomization to treatment end, or censored at the date of last treatment, assessed up to 10 years
Cumulative dose intensity
Will be defined as the sum of all doses taken across all cycles. Will be characterized using descriptive statistics.
Time frame: Up to 24 months (cycle length = 28 days)
Number of dose modifications (DM)
The number of DMs, DM status (planned versus unplanned) and reason for DM by cycle and overall treatment will be characterized using descriptive statistics. Reasons off treatment and every DM will also be tabulated.
Time frame: Up to 6 cycles (cycle length = 28 days) and overall, assessed up to 10 years
Relative dose intensity
Will be defined as the dose received as percentage of planned dose of each cycle. Will be characterized using descriptive statistics.
Time frame: Up to 6 cycles (cycle length = 28 days) and overall, assessed up to 10 years
Incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE)
The cumulative incidence of VTE overall and within dichotomized risk groups will be assessed using Fine and Gray model with and without adjustment for age and competing risk of death. To assess the impact of thrombosis on survival, incidence of VTE will be treated as a time-dependent covariate in Cox PH regression models of survival follow-up. Computed HR and 90% CI will be reported. Additionally, landmark (LM) analyses with patients alive classified by occurrence of VTE after 6 cycles of treatment based on Kaplan Meier from that timepoint will be conducted.
Time frame: Up to 10 years
Incidence of arterial thrombotic events (ATE)
The cumulative incidence of ATE overall and within dichotomized risk groups will be assessed using Fine and Gray model with and without adjustment for age and competing risk of death. To assess the impact of thrombosis on survival, incidence of ATE will be treated as a time-dependent covariate in Cox PH regression models of survival follow-up. Computed HR and 90% CI will be reported. Additionally, LM analyses with patients alive classified by occurrence of ATE after 6 cycles of treatment based on Kaplan Meier from that timepoint will be conducted.
Time frame: Up to 10 years
Incidence of clinically significant bleeding events
Will be assessed according to concurrent thromboprophylaxis type and dose.
Time frame: Up to 10 years
Venous thromboembolism risk
IMPEDE and SAVED risk scores will be calculated. Patients will be classified into 3 risk groups (low, intermediate, high) and dichotomized (low vs. intermediate-high) based on IMPEDE risk score while patients will be classified into 2 risk groups (low and high) based on SAVED risk score. Descriptive statistics will be used to characterize IMPEDE and SAVED risk variables and scores. The accuracy of IMPEDE and SAVED risk models will be assessed based on positive predictive value.
Time frame: At baseline and at time of VTE, assessed up to 24 months
Thromboprophylaxis
Descriptive statistics (count and percentages) will be used to characterize thromboprophylaxis strategies (type and dose).
Time frame: Up to 24 months (cycle length = 28 days)
Impact of MRD-negative status on PFS and OS
Kaplan Meier plots will be produced by MRD-negative status as defined in this study. Alternative definitions of MRD-negative status and MRD levels will also be assessed. MRD assessment will also be evaluated in the context of disease response based on standard International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) criteria. The proportion of patients with marrow MRD-negative status will be cross-tabulated with IMWG response categories (PR, VGPR, CR, stringent complete response). Sensitivity analyses excluding untreated patients will be conducted.
Time frame: After 6 cycles (cycle length = 28 days)
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