City of Hope is committed to providing new and innovative treatments for our cancer patients whenever possible. This includes enrolling qualified patients in carefully selected clinical trials for cancer. Clinical trials are a key testing ground for determining the effectiveness and safety of new treatments and drugs for cancer and other diseases. Our doctors may recommend that cancer patients enroll in cancer clinical trials if they meet specific criteria. Cancer trials may offer patients access to treatment options that would otherwise be unavailable to them. Talk to your doctor about whether a cancer trial is a good option for you and ask about the risks and various requirements involved. Use the tool below to find a clinical trial for your cancer type at City of Hope Atlanta, Chicago or Phoenix.
This phase III trial studies how well lenalidomide and dexamethasone works with or without daratumumab in treating patients with high-risk smoldering myeloma. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as lenalidomide and dexamethasone, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as daratumumab, may induce changes in the body's immune system and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Giving lenalidomide and dexamethasone with daratumumab may work better in treating patients with smoldering myeloma.
The TAPUR study is a clinical trial that aims to improve our understanding of how commercially available anti-cancer drugs perform on a broader range of cancers, by matching the drugs to tumors with specific genomic mutations that the drugs are designed to target.