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A study looking at bortezomib for Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia (UK R2W)

Overview

Cancer types:

Blood cancers, Low grade lymphoma, Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

This study looked at rituximab, cyclophosphamide and bortezomib for Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia. This is pronounced wall-den-stroms mak-row-glob-you-lin-ee-mee-a

Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia (WM) is a rare type of lymphoma called lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL). It is a slow growing type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).

This study was supported by Cancer Research UK. It was open for people to join between 2013 and 2015. The team published the results in 2024.

Recruitment start: 18 January 2013

Recruitment end: 20 September 2015

How to join

Please note: In order to join a trial you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.

Chief investigators

Dr Rebecca Auer

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

Janssen-Cilag

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Roche

University College London (UCL)

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/11/030.

Last reviewed: 04 Sept 2025

CRUK internal database number: 8777

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