ORPHA:100022
Extramedullary soft tissue plasmacytoma
Publications
15
17.7th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
82
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
2/6
Stages with a signal
How rare: 1-9 / 1 000 000 — roughly one to nine people per million. In a city the size of Kolkata, perhaps a few dozen.
Cross-references
Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.
- MONDO:0015043
- UMLS:C2211567
Research stages
Trial readiness signals
Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”
2/6 stages with a signal
No specific-condition interventional trial, but broader-category trials exist — discuss eligibility with a clinician.
- Gene identifiedNot found
No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build
- LiteraturePresent
15 matched papers (4 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO
- Animal modelNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance
- Orphan designationNot checked
FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet
- Interventional trialPartial
None under the specific name; 31 for broader category plasmacytoma
Biology
Genes and phenotypes
Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.
Do we know what causes it?
Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.
No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.
Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)
Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.
Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)
Not enriched in this build.
Literature
Is anyone studying this?
15
15 papers have ever been indexed under this name. For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.
15 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).
4 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 17.7th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 15 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
82
Distinct author names in 15 sampled papers — named people below.
Who's working on it?
No interventional trial matched this name; these authors publish on it in the sampled literature — a practical starting point for contact.
- 01Ackerman C1 paper · 2024
Department of Medical Imaging and Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Asare-Owusu L1 paper · 2000Papers in Europe PMC
- 03
- 04Banerjee SS1 paper · 1997Papers in Europe PMC
- 05Bhavsar T1 paper · 2020
Department of Pathology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Brisbane JU1 paper · 1982Papers in Europe PMC
- 07Burke OJ1 paper · 2026
Internal Medicine, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, USA.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Chen WJ1 paper · 1995Papers in Europe PMC
- 09
- 10Corwin JM1 paper · 1982Papers in Europe PMC
Clinical research
Is a treatment being tested?
0
interventional trials for this specific condition
No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov (observational studies and pan-disease registries are listed separately when present). 31 trials are registered for plasmacytoma, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.
Data as of 27 July 2026
No matched interventional trials. This is true for 73% of diseases in the trials denominator (5114 of 7003). Here are the researchers publishing on it.
high confidence · 36.5th percentile (trials denominator)
Recruiting interventional trials
From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set
No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.
31 interventional trials matched plasmacytoma, the broader category — listed below. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.
Broader category: plasmacytoma
31
Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.
Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.
Recruiting under the broader category
- NCT05248633·RECRUITING·Chemotherapy Combined With Radiotherapy Versus Radiotherapy Alone for Solitary Plasmacytoma
Conditions: Solitary Plasmacytoma·Matched via name phrase
- NCT06863584·RECRUITING·SBRT Plus Lenalidomide for Solitary Plasmacytoma: Phase II Trial
Conditions: Solitary Plasmacytoma·Matched via name phrase
- NCT06435910·RECRUITING·Engineered Dendritic Cell Vaccines for Multiple Myeloma
Conditions: Multiple Myeloma or Plasmacytoma·Matched via name phrase
- NCT06429150·RECRUITING·Frontline Combination CAR-T Cell Therapy for Multiple Myeloma or Plasmacytoma
Conditions: Multiple Myeloma · Plasmacytoma·Matched via name phrase
- NCT07115667·RECRUITING·Radiation Combined With BCMA/CD3 Bispecific Antibody Therapy for Solitary Bone Plasmacytoma With Mild Bone Marrow Infiltration
Conditions: Solitary Bone Plasmacytoma · Plasmacytoma of Bone · Plasma Cell Disorders·Matched via name phrase
- NCT07705074·NOT YET RECRUITING·FAPI PET Imaging - An Exploratory Study
Conditions: Thyroid Pathology · Head and Neck Cancer (H&N) · Sinonasal Tract Tumor · Sarcoidosis·Matched via name phrase
Where to find support
We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:
India — NPRD
Last verified 2026-07-26This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.
Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.
How we counted this
Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.
"Extramedullary soft tissue plasmacytoma"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Extramedullary soft tissue plasmacytoma"
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Parent-category trials query:
"plasmacytoma"
Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase
Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov
Confidence reasoning
- Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
- No synonyms dropped by stoplist
- No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
Ingested 2026-07-27T06:54:24.456Z