Lymphoproliferative disorders Clinical Trials

BACKGROUND Lymphomatoid granulomatosis (LYG) is an angiocentric destructive proliferation of lymphoid cells predominantly involving the lungs, skin, kidneys, and central nervous system. It is divided into three grades, depending on the degree of necrosis and cellular atypia. The grades of disease are histologically-based and do not necessarily correlate with clinical ...

OBJECTIVES: - Ascertain individuals at high risk for hematologic malignancy because of personal or family medical history. - Evaluate and define the clinical spectrum and natural history of disease in syndromes predisposing these individuals and families to hematologic cancer. - Evaluate the potential precursor states of malignancy in families at ...

Background Multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD) is a rare but lethal Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) associated lymphoproliferative disorder with a median survival of 2 years. It occurs more often in HIV-infected individuals than those without HIV infection. The poor prognosis is not fully explained by the underlying HIV, as the HIV-negative ...

Patients who participate will be asked to complete detailed family and medical history questionnaires initially, with a follow-up questionnaire every year. Patients will be asked to supply a blood sample and possibly a mouthwash sample, both of which can be done by mail. Patients will be asked to consent to ...

This study is performed in order to investigate the molecular mechanisms of action of photo(chemo)therapy in skin diseases, including psoriasis, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, other lymphoproliferative disorders of the skin, eczema, lichen planus, prurigo/pruritus, polymorphic light eruption, mastocytosis, graft-versus-host disease, vitiligo and other photo(chemo)therapy-responsive diseases. Twenty patients will be enrolled per ...

The treatment outcome of patients with relapsed or refractory Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) are not satisfactory especially for those not suitable for transplantation. One of main reason is chemotherapy resistance. The investigators conducted this study to evaluate the efficacy of Chidamide combined with R-GDP(rituximab/gemcitabine/dexamethasone/cisplatin) in treating patients with relapsed ...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To compare the overall survival (OS) rate at 2 years post treatment using the Jefferson 2 step reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) approach in patients with haploidentical family donors with hematological malignancies in morphological or radiographic remission or with chemosensitive, indolent diseases to historical OS rates in similar ...

OBJECTIVES Provide source of patient tissue, blood, and body fluid samples for ongoing diagnostic, prognostic, or immune-monitoring studies. Support and enhance translational, clinical and basic research for Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC) members (and non-members who have an LCCC member as sponsor and collaborator) with IRB-approved studies. Maintain responsible and ...

OBJECTIVES Primary Evaluate the use of 3'-deoxy-3'-[18F] fluorothymidine (FLT) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to measure tumor proliferation and the DNA synthetic pathway (thymidine kinase levels) in patients with cancer. Secondary Determine the efficacy of FLT PET imaging in detecting lesions and estimating response to treatment. OUTLINE: Patients undergo up ...

Subjects (or their syngeneic donor) will give blood for investigators to make LMP/BARF1/EBNA-1 (GRALE) CTLs in the lab. These cells will be grown and frozen for the subject. Patients will be started on the lowest dose (1 of 3 different levels) of GRALE T cells. Once that dose schedule proves ...