Could a drug combo replace chemo and transplant for multiple myeloma?
NCT ID NCT06918002
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Aug 12, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study tests whether a combination of two drugs (elranatamab and lenalidomide) can replace high-dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplant for people newly diagnosed with multiple myeloma. About 824 adults under 70 will be randomly assigned to either standard treatment or the experimental drug combo. After initial therapy, participants will be re-randomized to receive either standard maintenance or elranatamab alone to see which better prevents the cancer from returning.
This is an AI summary of the original study and may miss details. Read our disclaimer.
Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
-
Phase 3
Large-scale testing in a bigger group. Usually the last step before a treatment can be approved.
- Participants
-
About 824 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
-
Jul 2025
- Expected to finish
-
May 2036
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
-
A research network
The lead sponsor is a research network or cooperative group.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
-
18 to 69 years
- Sex
-
Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
-
Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
Show the full entry requirements Hide the full entry requirements
Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
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 study intervention that are not amenable to premedication with steroids and H2 blockers or would prohibit further treatment with these agents. 13. Known allergies to any of the study medications, their analogues, or excipients in the various formulations. 14. Subjects who have had major surgery within 2 weeks before study inclusion (signing of the informed consent) OR will not have fully recovered from surgery before initiating induction therapy OR have surgery planned during their study participation. Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty are not considered as major surgery. 15. Subjects with any prior or concurrent malignancy (other than multiple myeloma) within 5 years of study inclusion study, except for adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, in situ carcinoma of the cervix, or localized prostate adenocarcinoma diagnosed ≥3 years ago and without evidence of biological failure, or other cancers for which the subject has undergone potentially curative therapy and has without evidence of relapse/recurrence for ≥5 years. 16. Pregnant or breast-feeding women. Women that refuse to abstain from heterosexual intercourse or refuse to use adequate contraceptives during heterosexual intercourse starting at least 4 weeks before initiating induction therapy and continually until at least 4 weeks after discontinuing lenalidomide,90 days after discontinuing daratumumab and 6 months after discontinuing elranatamab. 18\. Men with partners of childbearing potential, even men with a successful vasectomy, that refuse to use a condom during intercourse, from initiating induction therapy to ≥4 weeks ys after discontinuing lenalidomide,. Furthermore, men must agree to not donate sperm during this period. 19\. Known positive for HIV or active hepatitis A, B or C: Uncontrolled or active HBV infection: Patients with positive HBsAg and/or HBV DNA Of note: Patients can be eligible if anti-HBc IgG positive (with or without positive anti-HBs) but HBsAg and HBV DNA are negative. o If anti-HBV therapy in relation to prior infection was started before initiation of IMP, the anti-HBV therapy and monitoring should continue throughout the study treatment period. Patients with negative HBsAg and positive HBV DNA observed during screening period will be evaluated by a specialist for start of anti-viral treatment: study treatment could be proposed if HBV DNA becomes negative, and all the other study criteria are still met. • Active HCV infection: positive HCV RNA and negative anti-HCV. Of note: Patients with antiviral therapy for HCV started before initiation of IMP and positive HCV antibodies are eligible. The antiviral therapy for HCV should continue throughout the treatment period until seroconversion. Patients with positive anti-HCV and undetectable HCV RNA without antiviral therapy for HCV are eligible. 20\. Patient with an active systemic infection or severe infections requiring parenteral administration of antibiotics. 21\. Patients with a gastrointestinal disease/disorder that may significantly impact the absorption of oral treatments. 22\. Patients unable or unwilling to undergo antithrombic prophylaxis. 23\. A person under guardianship, trusteeship, or deprived of freedom by a judicial or administrative decision.
Get updates
Get notified about this study
Sign up to get updates when this study changes or when new studies for Multiple myeloma, newly diagnosed are added.
Genom att skicka in godkänner du våra Användarvillkor
Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
-
The places running it
64 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
-
The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
-
A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
-
CH Bretagne Atlantique Vannes et Auray - P. Chubert
RECRUITINGVannes, France
-
CH Fleyriat
RECRUITINGBourg-en-Bresse, France
-
CH Le mans
RECRUITINGLe Mans, France
-
CH Saint Jean
RECRUITINGPerpignan, France
-
CHD Vendée
RECRUITINGLa Roche-sur-Yon, France
-
CHMS Centre Hospitalier Métropole Savoie
RECRUITINGChambéry, France
-
CHR Orléans
RECRUITINGOrléans, France
-
CHRU Brest - Hôpital A. Morvan
RECRUITINGBrest, France
-
CHRU Hôpital Bretonneau - Centre Henry Kaplan
RECRUITINGTours, France
-
CHRU Hôpital Claude Huriez
RECRUITINGLille, France
-
CHRU Hôpital de Pontchaillou
RECRUITINGRennes, France
-
CHRU Hôpitaux de Brabois
RECRUITINGNancy, France
-
CHRU Hôtel Dieu
RECRUITINGNantes, France
-
CHU Amiens
RECRUITINGAmiens, France
-
CHU Angers
RECRUITINGAngers, France
-
CHU Besançon
RECRUITINGBesançon, France
-
CHU Bordeaux - Hopital Haut Lévêque - Centre F. Magendi
RECRUITINGBordeaux, France
-
CHU Caen - Côte de Nacre
RECRUITINGCaen, France
-
CHU Carémeau, Institut de Cancérologie du Guard
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGNîmes, France
-
CHU Dijon
RECRUITINGDijon, France
-
CHU Henri Mondor
RECRUITINGCréteil, France
-
CHU Hôpital Saint Antoine
RECRUITINGParis, France
-
CHU Poitiers - Pôle régional de Cancérologie
RECRUITINGPoitiers, France
-
CHU Strasbourg
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGStrasbourg, France
-
CHU de Grenoble
RECRUITINGGrenoble, France
-
CHU de la Réunion Site SUD (Terre Sainte)
RECRUITINGLa Réunion, France
-
CHV André Mignot - Université de Versailles
RECRUITINGVersailles, France
-
Centre Henri Becquerel
RECRUITINGRouen, France
-
Centre Hospitalier H. Duffaut
RECRUITINGAvignon, France
-
Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud
RECRUITINGLyon, France
-
Centre Hospitalier Saint Brieuc
RECRUITINGSaint-Brieuc, France
-
Centre Hospitalier Simone Veil
RECRUITINGBlois, France
-
Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien
RECRUITINGCorbeil-Essonnes, France
-
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Limoges
RECRUITINGLimoges, France
-
Centre Hospitalier William Morey
RECRUITINGChalon-sur-Saône, France
-
Centre Hospitalier d'Argenteuil Victor Dupouy
RECRUITINGArgenteuil, France
-
Centre Hospitalier de Dunkerque
RECRUITINGDunkirk, France
-
Centre Hospitalier de Perigueux
RECRUITINGPérigueux, France
-
Centre Hospitalier de Quimper Cornouaille
RECRUITINGQuimper, France
-
Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Quentin
RECRUITINGSaint-Quentin, France
-
Centre Léon Bérard
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGLyon, 69373, France
-
Centre de Recherche Clinique / GHT des Landes
RECRUITINGMont-de-Marsan, France
-
Centre hospitalier
RECRUITINGTarbes, France
-
Centre hospitalier René Dubost
RECRUITINGPontoise, France
-
Centre hospitalier de la Côte Basque
RECRUITINGBayonne, France
-
Ch Annecy Genevois
RECRUITINGAnnecy, France
-
Chu Estaing
RECRUITINGClermont-Ferrand, France
-
Grand Hopital Est Francilien (GHEF) Site de Meaux
RECRUITINGMeaux, France
-
Gustave Roussy
RECRUITINGVillejuif, France
-
Hopital Louis Pasteur
RECRUITINGChartres, France
-
Hopital Monod
RECRUITINGLe Havre, France
-
Hopital Saint Eloi - CHU Montpellier
RECRUITINGMontpellier, France
-
Hôpital Archet 1
RECRUITINGNice, France
-
Hôpital Avicenne
RECRUITINGBobigny, France
-
Hôpital Cochin
RECRUITINGParis, France
-
Hôpital E. Muller
RECRUITINGMulhouse, France
-
Hôpital Necker
RECRUITINGParis, France
-
Hôpital Saint Louis
RECRUITINGParis, France
-
Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Percy
RECRUITINGClamart, France
-
Hôpital de Mercy (CHR Metz-Thionville)
RECRUITINGMetz, France
-
Institut de Cancérologie Lucien Neuwirth
RECRUITINGSaint-Priest, France
-
Institut de cancérologie de Bourgogne
RECRUITINGDijon, France
-
La Pitié Salpêtrière
RECRUITINGParis, France
-
Pôle IUCT Oncopole CHU
RECRUITINGToulouse, France
More trials for these conditions
Other studies related to the condition(s) this trial covers.