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Cardiovascular Toxicity Induced by Antitumoral Drugs: Risk Assessment and Early Diagnosis. CARDIOTOX Registry

Conditions
Cardiovascular Toxicity Induced by Antitumoral Drugs
Registration Number
NCT02039622
Lead Sponsor
Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario La Paz
Brief Summary

The study is multicenter, post-authorization, observational and ambispective

Detailed Description

Cardiovascular toxicity produced by antitumoral drugs has a considerable impact in life wellness and prognosis of cancer patients, which can imply the suspension of the desired antitumoral treatment or even risk the patient´s life. The development of a risk score for these patients, as well as specific methodology for early detection of cardiotoxicity would therefore be a great outcome to trigger new strategies for the monitoring of these patients. Currently there is a lack of a clinical score to predict cardiotoxicity risk. Therefore, there is an urgent need to identify new myocardial injury biomarkers and novel imaging parameters for measuring ventricular function that would increase the sensitivity of the traditional methods used for the early detection of cardiotoxicity.

The objectives of the present study are the following:

* Identify the factors related with cardiotoxicity risk produced by antitumoral drugs.

* Assess the utility of clinical, biological and functional parameters for the early detection of cardiotoxicity produced by antitumoral drugs.

The study is a multicenter one, observational and ambispective. We will include all the patients assessed by the Oncology and Haematology Departments in each participant hospital that are about to initiate or are undergoing chemotherapy with any of the drugs specified in the study protocol. Patients will be monitorized during the treatment, undergoing an echocardiography study and a blood sample collection in each clinical timepoint. All these parameters will hopefully shed some light for the development of a clinical risk score as well as identifying new early biomarkers for cardiotoxicity.

The initial follow-up in this phase of the study will be 2 years

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
3400
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patients> 18 years with indicated antitumor chemotherapy.
  • Estimated survival ≥ 6 months
  • No oxygen dependence
  • No contraindication for taking the study target antitumor agents.
  • No exclusion of patients with risk factors or previous heart disease.
  • No exclusion of patients with previous cancer, previous antitumor treatment, current antitumor treatment, previous or current radiotherapy.
  • No exclusion of patients with previous cardiovascular toxicity
Exclusion Criteria
  • No exclusion criteria.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change in CARDIOTOXICITY DEVELOPMENT RISK SCORE21 days, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 1.5 years and 2 years

Risk of cardiovascular toxicity by antitumoral agents is multifactorial.

* Clinical heart failure

* Asymptomatic ventricular dysfunction

* Elevated biomarkers

* Severe arrhythmias

* Myocardial ischemia

* Other cardiac events

change in EARLY DETECTION OF CARDIOTOXICITY21 days, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 1.5 years and 2 years

Early recognition of cardiotoxicity can help determine whether to continue treatment with a particular type of drug and set up preventive treatments.

* Demographic variables for study inclusion

* Clinical symptoms of cardiac disease

* EKG

* Transthoracic echocardiogram

* Biological markers: Troponin I (cTnI), NTproBNP

* Oncological variables: Diagnosis and cancer location, Drugs

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
• Define the sensitivity and specificity of new ventricular function parameters in cardiovascular toxicity screening.21 days, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 1.5 years and 2 years

- Longitudinal global strain

Incidence of cardiovascular toxicity in relation to the cumulative dose21 days, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 1.5 years and 2 years

* Heart failure

* Asymptomatic ventricular dysfunction

* Myocardial Ischemia

* Severe arrhythmias

* Other cardiac pathology

Define the sensitivity and specificity of the left ventricle ejection fraction in the detection of cardiovascular toxicity21 days, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 1.5 years and 2 years

* Telediastolic volume left ventricle

* Telesystolic volume right ventricle

* Ejection fraction left ventricle

* Size of left atrium

* Size right atrium

* Mitral valve disease

* Tricuspid valve disease

* Pericardial overflow

Incidence of cardiovascular toxicity in its different forms2 years

Cardiotoxicity severity:

* Mild: asymptomatic, no hospitalization needed

* Severe: requires admission or specific treatment initiated for this reason

Economic analysis derived from the diagnostic strategy with biomarkers versus echocardiography.2 years

Economic analysis comparing efficacy of biomarkers versus echocardiography

•Incidence of cardiovascular toxicity in relation to the kind of antitumor agent21 days, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 1.5 years and 2 years

* Heart failure

* Asymptomatic ventricular dysfunction

* Myocardial Ischemia

* Severe arrhythmias

* Other cardiac pathology

•Analyze the sensitivity and specificity of EKG changes regarding new changes in biomarkers, clinical and echocardiographic parameters21 days, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 1.5 years and 2 years

- EKG

Analyze whether alterations of biological markers predate clinical, echocardiographic and functional parameters21 days, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 1.5 years and 2 years

* Troponin I

* NT-proBNP

Compare the effectiveness of early identification of cardiovascular toxicity of high-sensitivity troponin (troponin T) compared to a conventional troponin21 days, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 1.5 years and 2 years

* Troponin I (cTn I)

* Troponin Thigh sensitivity (cTnhs)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

La pAz University Hospital

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Madrid, Spain

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