Clinical trials

This phase II study is designed to determine the clinical efficacy of PD-1 inhibitors, administered as maintenance therapy after autologous stem cell transplant (autoHCT), in patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) classical Hodgkin Lymphoma (cHL)

Patients in this prospective multicenter phase II study will be randomized between two first-line therapy strategies for advanced stages of cHL. In the Nivo-AVD cohort, patients will receive 2 cycles of nivolumab monotherapy followed by a switch to Nivo-AVD combination therapy (total of 6 cycles); in the Standard cohort, patients will receive therapy according to current clinical guidelines in Russian Federation for first-line therapy of cHL, which include starting first-line therapy with 2 cycles of BEACOPP-like regimens and, after assessing response after 2 courses, switching to A(B)VD or continuing with BEACOPP-like regimens

Optimization of bendamustine-containg graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis to reduce the incidence of secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and GVHD

The open-label prospective non-randomised controlled aims to assess the efficacy of the combination of immunosupression (IST) and tonsillectomy (TE) in Caucasian patients at high risk of the IgA-nephropathy.

This is a single-center randomized open-label phase II clinical trial to compare relapse prophylaxis with sorafenib and observation after graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis with post-transplantation bendamustine and cyclophosphamide in high-risk myeloid malignancies. This is an intention to treat study, where randomization is performed at first documentation of CR after engraftment.

The therapy under investigation is the addition of 300 000 IU of vitamin A and 100 000 IU of vitamin D before conditioning. The study will include patients with malignant diseases in hematologic response with indications for allogeneic transplantation with matched related or matched unrelated donor.

Haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation irrespective of the conditioning intensity and graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis is associated with high frequency of primary and secondary graft failure. Different technologies of with replete or depleted graft are associated with 7-20% of graft failures in different diseases. Fludarabine and busulfan conditioning is the most commonly used approach for a variety of diseases. In two previously completed trials of addition of either bendamustine and ruxolitinib to conditioning we observed low rates of primary graft failure with both approaches. The study is the direct randomized comparisons of these two approaches with the primary aim of reducing composite events of primary graft failure, relapse and non-relapse mortality. The stratas for the study are Disease Risk Index (DRI) and the age of the haploidentical donor (\<35 vs ≥35).

One of the possible options for the treatment of MS at present is a high-dose immunosuppressive therapy followed by autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HIST-AHSCT), which is a highly effective treatment for patients with relapsing-remitting MS. This method of MS treatment was introduced in 1997. Significant complications and mortality associated with HIST-ATHSC is an obstacle to broad use of this method. The risk is even greater in patients with advanced disease, long duration of previous treatment and aggressive forms of MS. Despite toxicity certain progressive cases of MS are still an indication for HIST-autoHSCT. Most commonly used conditioning regimens for multiple sclerosis include high-dose cyclophosphamide. One of the options to reduce cyclophosphamide-related toxicity and dose is addition of fludarabine. Fludarabine is a cytostatic drug, an antimetabolite from the group of purine antagonists. It has a pronounced immunosuppressive activity and no overlapping toxicity with cyclophosphamide. The study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of this combination.

Stomach cancer is recognized as the third leading cause of death of cancer patients worldwide. Despite the radical treatment carried out, the progression of gastric cancer occurs in 30-40% of patients. The most common type of tumor progression of this localization is peritoneal carcinomatosis. When peritoneal carcinomatosis occurs, the median survival of patients does not exceed 3 months, the overall survival is no more than 6 months. Unfortunately, when peritoneal carcinomatosis occurs, palliative chemotherapy remains the only treatment option. The modern strategy for the prevention and treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis is based on the concept of regional chemotherapy. The main methods of regional chemotherapy are hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) and Pressured Intraperitoneal Aerosol Chemotherapy (PIPAC). PIPAC is a new technology for delivering chemotherapy drugs to tumor nodes on the surface of the peritoneum and allows the cytostatic to be evenly distributed over the abdominal cavity, increasing the depth of its penetration into tumor nodes due to the properties of aerosol and gradients of intra-abdominal and interstitial pressure. The method has a number of advantages over the HIPEC method: a large penetration depth of drugs, low trauma, the possibility of repeated use. We offer PIPAC for patients with locally advanced gastric cancer and a high risk of developing peritoneal carcinomatosis in an adjuvant mode in addition to standard treatment to prevent the development of carcinomatosis.