drugset / Trial / NCT00085345

Melphalan, Arsenic Trioxide, and Ascorbic Acid in Treating Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma

NCT00085345

Phase 2 Withdrawn Oncotherapeutics
Treatment

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as melphalan, arsenic trioxide, and ascorbic acid, work in different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Arsenic trioxide and ascorbic acid may also help melphalan kill more cancer cells by making them more sensitive to the drugs. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving melphalan together with arsenic trioxide and ascorbic acid works in treating patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

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Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Melphalan Small molecule Oral
Subject Vitamin C Other / unclassified Intravenous
Subject arsenic trioxide Small molecule Intravenous