Health-Related Quality of Life (QOL), Physical and Respiratory Function in Patients With Myeloma Affecting the Spine

NCT ID: NCT01006070

Last Updated: 2012-03-21

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

50 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-02-28

Study Completion Date

2011-03-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to create a prospective database of patients with myeloma affecting the spine. This database will define changes in health-related quality of life over time, and the effect of incident fractures and their treatment on specific measures of pain, physical function, pulmonary function, and future fractures. In 2008, the UCSF Myeloma Service was actively caring for 347 patients with myeloma, of which 150 patients had lytic lesions on radiographs, and 100 had a known vertebral fracture. This population, as well as any new myeloma patients, will serve as the source of the study population.

Detailed Description

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The UCSF Adult Hematology Program maintains a data base of all patients with a diagnosis of multiple myeloma seen in the Clinic. As patients are treated, relapse, receive new treatment, are transplanted, or pass away, these data are entered into this Multiple Myeloma Data Base (MMDB).

The MMDB will be expanded to include parameters to identify those patients with myeloma affecting the spine. A recruitment letter will be sent to all patients in the MMDB identified as having myeloma affecting the spine asking if they would be interested in participating in this study.

Patients who agree to participate in the study will be given an appointment to meet with Dr. Wolf or Dr. Martin to discuss the study and if willing, to sign the informed consent document. They will have an exam and history taken that includes fracture history.

Patients who have signed consent will be sent for thoracic-lumbar spine films (unless they had prior spine films taken within the last 3 months). Those with normal films will not be eligible to be enrolled to the study. Those with abnormal spinal films will then be sent for MRI of the spine, pulmonary function testing, and meeting with Dr. R. Yonge who will administer the various QOL tests described below.

All eligible established and new patients will be invited to participate in the prospective study. Patients who sign the informed consent will be included in the prospective study. A minimum of 25 patients with vertebral fractures and 25 patients without fractures, will be observed to measure the impact of fractures on health-related quality of life. Study enrollment will be complete when 25 patients without a new fracture and 25 patients with a new fracture treated by balloon kyphoplasty have been enrolled.

Conditions

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Multiple Myeloma

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Patients with existing spinal fractures

Myeloma patients with documented x-ray evidence of spinal fractures.

kyphoplasty

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

surgical kyphoplasty

Patients without spinal fractures

Myeloma patients with bony disease in the spine without existing fractures.

kyphoplasty

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

surgical kyphoplasty

Interventions

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kyphoplasty

surgical kyphoplasty

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Other Intervention Names

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balloon kyphoplasty

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Adults with a diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma and evidence of myelomatous lesions in the spine, including plasmacytomas, lytic lesions and fractures.

Exclusion Criteria

* Myeloma patients without evidence of bony lesions in the spine.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Medtronics, Inc.

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of California, San Francisco

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Jeffrey Wolf, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California, San Francisco

Sigurd Berven, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California, San Francisco

Thomas Martin, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California, San Francisco

Locations

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UCSF

San Francisco, California, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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0901Wolf

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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