Screening for AL Amyloidosis in Smoldering Multiple Myeloma
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In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Smoldering Multiple Myeloma. Basic parameters: from 40 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
In this multicenter study, we will recruit 400 patients 40 years of age or older at 15 centers with a diagnosis of smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM), a group of patients for whom standard of care is observation not treatment. The main goal of this study is to screen for the diagnosis of light-chain amyloidosis (AL) before the onset of symptomatic disease and to develop a training set for a likelihood algorithm.
Detailed description
This study is based on results from two prior studies in which 4 of 36 patients with SMM and none of 14 patients with MGUS were found to have AL. The hypothesis that we test with this protocol is that patients with (1) a pre-existing diagnosis of SMM, (2) free light chain (FLC) abnormalities, (3) IGLV genes associated with AL,(4) t(11;14) or gain 1q, and (5) NT-proBNP \> 332pg/mL will have undiagnosed AL or risk of progression to AL. We will study the potential for SMM, the FLC screen, AL-related IGLV gene use, t(11;14) or gain 1q cytogenetic abnormalities, and NT-proBNP \> 332pg/mL to be the variables in a likelihood algorithm for AL.
Primary outcome measures
- Creating a network to enroll patients on a collaborative study requiring marrow and blood specimens, to collect data for a training set of likelihood statistics and to plan a future validation study. [Time frame: 5 years]
- Validating an NGS assay that identifies IGLV genes in clonal plasma cells [Time frame: 5 years]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Patients 40 years of age and older
- diagnosed with either Smoldering Multiple Myeloma or a Monoclonal Gammopathy
- dFLC greater than 23 mg/L
- abnormal FLC ratio
- If the patient has an eGFR less than 50 mL/min/1.73m2, the FLC ratio is inconsequential. The patient only needs to meet the age and dFLC criterion.
Exclusion criteria
- Patients younger than 40 years of age are not eligible
- Patients with a previous finding of amyloid in other biopsies will not be included
- Adults unable to consent are not eligible, including the cognitively impaired Pregnant women, pregnant minors, minors (i.e., individuals who are not yet adults), wards of the state, non-viable neonates, neonates of uncertain viability, and prisoners are not eligible
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
United States · 13 centers
- University of Alabama Hospital — Birmingham
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — Los Angeles
- University of California, San Francisco — San Francisco
- Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston Hospital — Weston
- Tufts Medical Center — Boston
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center — New York
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — New York
- Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute — Charlotte
- … and 5 more centers
Publications
- Avalos M, Pouyes H, Grandvalet Y, Orriols L, Lagarde E. Sparse conditional logistic regression for analyzing large-scale matched data from epidemiological studies: a simple algorithm. BMC Bioinformatics. 2015;16 Suppl 6(Suppl 6):S1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-16-S6-S1. Epub 2015 Apr 17. PMID 25916593
- Bodi K, Prokaeva T, Spencer B, Eberhard M, Connors LH, Seldin DC. AL-Base: a visual platform analysis tool for the study of amyloidogenic immunoglobulin light chain sequences. Amyloid. 2009 Mar;16(1):1-8. doi: 10.1080/13506120802676781. PMID 19291508
- Bujang MA, Adnan TH. Requirements for Minimum Sample Size for Sensitivity and Specificity Analysis. J Clin Diagn Res. 2016 Oct;10(10):YE01-YE06. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2016/18129.8744. Epub 2016 Oct 1. PMID 27891446
- Comenzo RL, Wally J, Kica G, Murray J, Ericsson T, Skinner M, Zhang Y. Clonal immunoglobulin light chain variable region germline gene use in AL amyloidosis: association with dominant amyloid-related organ involvement and survival after stem cell transplantation. Br J Haematol. 1999 Sep;106(3):744-51. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1999.01591.x. PMID 10468868
- Comenzo RL, Zhang Y, Martinez C, Osman K, Herrera GA. The tropism of organ involvement in primary systemic amyloidosis: contributions of Ig V(L) germ line gene use and clonal plasma cell burden. Blood. 2001 Aug 1;98(3):714-20. doi: 10.1182/blood.v98.3.714. PMID 11468171
- Chaulagain CP, Comenzo RL. How we treat systemic light-chain amyloidosis. Clin Adv Hematol Oncol. 2015 May;13(5):315-24. PMID 26352777
- Dasari S, Theis JD, Vrana JA, Meureta OM, Quint PS, Muppa P, Zenka RM, Tschumper RC, Jelinek DF, Davila JI, Sarangi V, Kurtin PJ, Dogan A. Proteomic detection of immunoglobulin light chain variable region peptides from amyloidosis patient biopsies. J Proteome Res. 2015 Apr 3;14(4):1957-67. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00015. Epub 2015 Mar 20. PMID 25734799
- Dispenzieri A, Kyle RA, Katzmann JA, Therneau TM, Larson D, Benson J, Clark RJ, Melton LJ 3rd, Gertz MA, Kumar SK, Fonseca R, Jelinek DF, Rajkumar SV. Immunoglobulin free light chain ratio is an independent risk factor for progression of smoldering (asymptomatic) multiple myeloma. Blood. 2008 Jan 15;111(2):785-9. doi: 10.1182/blood-2007-08-108357. Epub 2007 Oct 17. PMID 17942755
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06365060 · 00003143 · R01CA279808