Multiple myeloma patients may be able to pause treatment safely
NCT ID NCT04221178
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether people with multiple myeloma who have been in a deep remission (called MRD-negative) for at least 3 years can stop their maintenance therapy and just be monitored closely. The goal is to see if stopping treatment keeps the cancer under control for at least one more year. About 50 participants will be followed to see if this approach is safe and effective.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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50 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jan 2020
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- 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.
Who is studied
This study will be conducted at MSKCC. Efforts will be made to ensure that women and minority groups are adequately represented in this trial. All patients will be seen by MSKCC myeloma physicians and associated MSKCC co-investigators, enrolled and registered at MSKCC.
- Ages
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18 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: * Patients with plasma cell myeloma treated with any number of prior lines of therapy, who at the time of study enrollment have had sustained MRD-negativity at a given timepoint and a subsequent time point with an interval of 3 or more years while on continuous maintenance therapy. MRD-negativity is defined per the International Myeloma Working Group Consensus Panel. * MRD positivity will be defined by detection of 1 or more neoplastic plasma cells in 10\^5 nucleated cells by flow cytometry as per IMWG criteria (i.e., sensitivity of 10-5) * Age \>/= 18 years with ECOG performance status \</= 2 * Patients must be able to understand and be willing to sign a voluntary informed consent form and agree to compliance with the protocol schedule; with the knowledge that they may withdraw consent at any time without impact on future medical care Exclusion Criteria: * Patients found to be MRD-positive at time of screening * Patients with plasma cell leukemia or other disorder of plasma cell neoplasm * Patient who are receiving other therapy with the intent of treating myeloma with the exception of bisphosphonates * Patients being treated for another, potentially life-limiting malignancy with 3-year lead-in to study enrollment, with the exception of non-melanoma skin cancer or in situ malignancy or malignancies that have received definitive curative therapy * Prior organ transplant or condition requiring immunosuppressive therapy * Prior allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant * Patients with any other ongoing, concomitant, comorbid illness including but not limited to uncontrolled diabetes, NYHA class III or IV heart failure, uncontrolled coronary artery disease/arrhythmia, psychiatric or social disorder that would compromise compliance with the study schema
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, 07920, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen
Montvale, New Jersey, 07645, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, 10065, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @ Suffolk
Commack, New York, 11725, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth
Middletown, New Jersey, 07748, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau
Uniondale, New York, 11553, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester
Harrison, New York, 10604, United States
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