Dexamethasone Treatment Options in New York

To determine if a single dose of dexamethasone (5 mg) administered in the first 12 hours following a potentially traumatic event alters a) cortisol and FKBP5 RNA the next day in the periphery measured in saliva; b) FKBP5 methylation by 1 month; c) executive functioning and emotion regulation functioning; d) psychophysiological (heart rate, respiration, skin conductance) in response cued reminders of the trauma; e) enhances the likelihood of remission of PTSD symptom severity. Read Less

This protocol is designed to assess the efficacy and safety of inotuzumab ozogamicin given with rituximab compared to a defined investigator's choice therapy. Subjects will be randomized to one of these two arms of the study. Read Less

Chronic lumbosacral radiculopathy secondary to lumbar spinal stenosis affects a large number of individuals, and there is a general lack of consensus in the medical community in terms of effective treatments for this problem. By assessing the relative efficacy of transforaminal epidural injections of particulate and nonparticulate steroids, this study attempts to further define the appropriate conservative management of painful unilateral radiculopathies due to unilateral lumbar foraminal stenosis. Patients will be randomized to receive a transforaminal epidural injection of either a particulate (Kenalog) or nonparticulate (Decadron) steroid. Outcomes will be assessed at 2 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months following the injection. Read Less

This study is designed to assess the effectiveness of the combination of Panobinostat plus Bortezomib and Dexamethasone in patients with relapsed and bortezomib refractory Multiple Myeloma. Read Less

GW679769 may affect liver enzymes that metabolize dexamethasone and ondansetron. This study is designed to test the safety and the extent of the GW679769 affect on dexamethasone and ondansetron levels in humans. Read Less

RATIONALE: Calcitriol may help prostate cancer cells become more like normal cells, and to grow and spread more slowly. Dexamethasone may help calcitriol work better by making tumor cells more sensitive to the drug. Giving calcitriol together with dexamethasone may be an effective treatment for prostate cancer that did not respond to hormone therapy . PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving calcitriol together with dexamethasone works in treating patients with prostate cancer that did not respond to hormone therapy. Read Less

This is a dose finding study to evaluate the safety and determine the maximum tolerated dose of carfilzomib in patients with previously treated systemic light-chain amyloidosis. Read Less

Randomized subjects will receive CC-5013 plus high-dose dexamethasone or placebo appearing identical to CC-5013 plus high-dose dexamethasone in 4-week cycles. Each subject will participate in a treatment phase and a follow-up phase. Read Less

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute will be the Sunshine Project Coordinator, but will not be recruiting locally. The purpose of the trial is to study the clinical and biological effects of metformin in combination with standard systemic chemotherapy in a disease (relapsed ALL) that has a dismal outcome, as well as to do a dose escalation study to find the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) of metformin in conjunction with ALL therapy. There have also been analysis of patients enrolled on trials who were diabetics on metformin and their outcome was better than patients on the same trial that were not on metformin as their antihyperglycemic. Read Less

The purpose of the study is to assess the concentration of Elotuzumab in Myeloma patients with very low kidney function including patients on dialysis. Read Less

This study is to determine whether addition of Revlimid to standard therapy will increase overall and complete response rates compared to historical standard frontline therapy and whether this combination treatment has fewer side effects than similar combination induction treatment. Read Less

PRIMARY STUDY OBJECTIVES * To evaluate the efficacy of the combination of bortezomib, dexamethasone, with and without DOXIL, followed by high-dose cyclophosphamide as a therapy for two different subsets of multiple myeloma patients: 1. Patients post first line therapy 2. Patients with relapsed/refractory disease who are bortezomib-naïve * To evaluate the safety of the combination of bortezomib and dexamethasone, with and without DOXIL, followed by high-dose cyclophosphamide as therapy for patients with multiple myeloma. SECONDARY STUDY OBJECTIVES * To evaluate the role of the combination of bortezomib dexamethasone, with and without DOXIL, followed by high-dose cyclophosphamide on the ability to collect \> 10 x 106 CD34+ cells/kg in \< 7 collections (for both subsets of multiple myeloma patients). * To evaluate the survival of patients who receive the combination of bortezomib dexamethasone, with and without DOXIL, followed by high-dose cyclophosphamide (for both subsets of patients). Read Less