New combo shows promise for Tough-to-Treat myeloma
NCT ID NCT01745640
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tested a combination of pomalidomide and dexamethasone in 63 patients with multiple myeloma that had returned or stopped responding to treatment, and who had specific high-risk genetic changes. The goal was to see how well the drugs controlled the disease and what side effects occurred. The results help doctors understand if this treatment can slow cancer growth in this difficult-to-treat group.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- pomalidomide and dexamethasone
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this combination could offer a treatment option for multiple myeloma patients with high-risk genetic features who have few alternatives.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-phase study (63 patients) without a comparison group. Results may not apply to all patients, and side effects like low blood counts or infections are possible.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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63 people
The number who actually took part.
- Start date
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Jan 2012
- Finished
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Dec 2015
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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19 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
inclusion criteria: * Able to understand and voluntarily sign an informed consent form * Age \>18 years * Life expectancy \> 6 months. * Patients must have a Symptomatic and Progressive MM * Patients must have a clearly detectable and quantifiable monoclonal M-component value * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status score of 0, 1, or 2 * Adequate bone marrow function, with no transfusion within 5 days prior to treatment. * Adequate organ function * Wash out period of at least 2 weeks from previous antitumor therapy or any investigational treatment. * Able to take antithrombotic medicines * Subjects affiliated with an appropriate social security system. * Agree to abstain from donating blood while taking study drug therapy and for at least 28 days following discontinuation of study drug . * Female subjects of childbearing potential (FCBP) (\*) must: Understand the potential teratogenic risk of the treatment and take the relative precaution mentioned in the protocol, in the Pomalidomide information sheet Agree to abstain from breastfeeding during study participation and for at least 28 days after study drug discontinuation * For female NOT of childbearing potential, pomalidomide is contraindicated unless the exceptions mentioned in the protocol * Understand the hazards and necessary precautions associated with the use of pomalidomide * Male subjects must: * Understand the potential teratogenic risk and take the relative precaution mentioned in the protocol, in the Pomalidomide information sheet Exclusion criteria : * Patient that will require allogeneic or autologous transplantation following pomalidomide dexamethasone treatment while in the same course. * Any other uncontrolled medical condition or comorbidity that might interfere with subject's participation * Use of any other experimental drug or therapy within 15 days of screening. * Patients with renal failure that require dialysis and patients with creatinine clearance \< 50 mL/min * Prior history of malignancies, other than multiple myeloma, unless the patients has been free of the disease for ≥3 years. Excepted those mentioned in the protocol. * Prior local irradiation within two weeks before screening * Ongoing active infection, especially ongoing pneumonitis * Ongoing Cardiac dysfunction * Inability or unwillingness to comply with birth control requirements
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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.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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CHRU POITIERS-Hôpital Jean Bernard
Poitiers, 86021, France
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CHRU RENNES 1, Hôpital Sud
Rennes, 35056, France
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CHRU RENNES 2, Hôpital Pontchaillou
Rennes, 35033, France
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CHRU, Hôpital A.Michallon
Grenoble, 38043, France
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CHRU, Hôpital Purpan
Toulouse, 31059, France
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CHRU, Hôpitaux de Brabois
Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, 54511, France
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CHRU, Hôtel Dieu
Nantes, 44035, France
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CHRU- Hôpital Bretonneau
Tours, 37044, France
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CHRU-Hôpital Sud Amiens
Amiens, 80054, France
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CHU - Hôpital St Antoine,
Paris, 75571, France
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CHU DIJON, Hôpital d'Enfants
Dijon, 21000, France
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Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud -1
Pierre-Bénite, 69495, France
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Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud -2
Pierre-Bénite, 69495, France
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Centre hospitalier départemental La Roche sur Yon
La Roche-sur-Yon, 85025, France
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Chru Caen
Caen, 14033, France
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Chru Lille
Lille, 59037, France
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Hôpital Haut-Leveque
Pessac, 33604, France
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Hôpital Robert Debré, CHU Reims
Reims, 51092, France
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Hôpital Saint-Louis
Paris, 75475, France
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Institut Paoli Calmette,
Marseille, 13273, France
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