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. 2022 Oct 20;12:1002168. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1002168

Table 1.

Eligibility criteria of the four main groups of patients enrolled in VAX4FRAIL study.

HEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES SOLID TUMORS IMMUNORHEUMATOLOGICAL DISEASES NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES
1a. Newly diagnosed patients with ANY hematological malignancy requiring treatment.
1b. Patients with ongoing treatments or with treatments completed within 6 months (chemotherapy and target therapies) other than antibodies. More specifically: patients with ongoing or completed chemotherapy or patients with ongoing or completed Ibrutinib or patients with ongoing or completed ruxolitinib
1c. Patients treated with anti-CD19 or CD20 or CD22 or CD30 or anti-PD1 antibodies with or without chemotherapy OR patients receiving CAR-T cells: patients treated anti-B-cell or patients treated anti-CD30 or patients treated anti-PD1.
1d. Patients at three months after autologous or allogeneic transplantation without active immune suppressive therapy: after autologous transplantation or after allogenic transplantation.
2a. Chemotherapy in adjuvant therapy. All patients with a diagnosis of solid tumors apart resected basal-cell or squamous-cell carcinoma of the skin, melanoma in situ, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, and carcinoma in situ of the Breast. Under curative surgery (stage II-III) for the solid tumor or hemotherapy alone or in combination with target therapies or radiotherapy.
2b. Chemotherapy in metastatic Disease. All patients with a diagnosis of solid tumors with Metastatic disease (stage IV), undergoing chemotherapy alone or in combination with immunotherapy or target therapy.
2c. Immunotherapy in metastatic Disease. All patients with a diagnosis of solid tumors with Metastatic disease (stage IV), undergoing immunotherapy alone.
2d. Target therapies in metastatic Disease. All patients with a diagnosis of solid tumors with Metastatic disease (stage IV), Undergoing target therapy alone.
3a. Patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis classified according to Chapel Hill Consensus Conference nomenclature, treated with immunodepressants agents with/without glucocorticoids or treated with RTX with/without glucocorticoids.
3b. Interstitial Lung Disease in Autoimmune Conditions. Patients with a diagnosis of a specific CTD, myositis or rheumatoid arthritis based on validated classification criteria, and clinically significant ILD defined as disease treated with traditional immunodepressants or rituximab and fibrotic and/or inflammatory changes on chest CT not attributable to infection, and no evidence of obstructive lung disease. Patients treated with traditional immunodepressive agents with/without glucocorticoids or patients treated with rituximab with/without glucocorticoids.
4a. Patients with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, age < 60 years with relapsing-remitting MS on Ocrelizumab (anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody) or with secondary/primary progressive MS on Ocrelizumab (anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody).
4b. Generalized Myasthenia Gravis, on immunosuppressive polytherapies or on B-cell targeted biological treatments, with lymphocytes count < 1 cell/microliter, or with thymoma.