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Enalapril in Treating Heart Damage Patients Who Received Anthracycline Chemotherapy for Childhood Cancer

Phase 3
Completed
Conditions
Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Cardiac Toxicity
Interventions
Procedure: quality-of-life assessment
Registration Number
NCT00003070
Lead Sponsor
Children's Oncology Group
Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Chemoprotective drugs, such as enalapril, may protect normal cells from the toxic effects of chemotherapy. It is not known whether enalapril is more effective than a placebo in treating heart damage in patients who received anthracycline chemotherapy for childhood cancer.

PURPOSE: Randomized double-blinded phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of enalapril with a placebo in treating heart damage in patients who received anthracycline chemotherapy for childhood cancer.

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: I. Determine whether enalapril treatment results in a reduction in body surface area-adjusted left ventricular mass in anthracycline-treated survivors of childhood cancer. II. Determine whether improvement in ventricular function achieved by enalapril is sustained and alters the course of late cardiotoxicity. III. Determine the impact of enalapril therapy on quality of life.

OUTLINE: This is a double blind, placebo controlled, randomized study. Patients are stratified based on the cumulative anthracycline dose, age at cancer diagnosis, and the duration of time since cessation of anthracycline therapy. Patients are administered enalapril or placebo by mouth bid. Patients undergo a series of cardiac tests after administration of drug. Follow-up occurs at 2, 6, and 12 months and every year thereafter.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: 75 patients in each treatment arm will be accrued.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
13
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Stratum 1 < 350/mg/m2 anthracycline dosequality-of-life assessment\< 4 years of age at diagnosis \< 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 2 < 350mg/m2 anthracycline dosequality-of-life assessment\< 4 years of age at diagnosis \>= 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 5 >= 350mg/m2 anthracycline doseenalapril maleate\< 4 years of age at diagnosis \< 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 8 >= 350mg/m2 anthracycline dosequality-of-life assessment\>= 4 years of age at diagnosis \>= 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 2 < 350mg/m2 anthracycline doseenalapril maleate\< 4 years of age at diagnosis \>= 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 3 < 350mg/m2 anthracycline dosequality-of-life assessment\>= 4 years of age at diagnosis \< 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 4 < 350mg/m2 anthracycline dosequality-of-life assessment\>= 4 years of age at diagnosis \>= 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 5 >= 350mg/m2 anthracycline dosequality-of-life assessment\< 4 years of age at diagnosis \< 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 6 >=350mg/m2 anthracycline dosequality-of-life assessment\< 4 years of age at diagnosis \< 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 7 >= 350mg/m2 anthracycline dosequality-of-life assessment\>= 4 years of age at diagnosis \< 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 4 < 350mg/m2 anthracycline doseenalapril maleate\>= 4 years of age at diagnosis \>= 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 1 < 350/mg/m2 anthracycline doseenalapril maleate\< 4 years of age at diagnosis \< 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 3 < 350mg/m2 anthracycline doseenalapril maleate\>= 4 years of age at diagnosis \< 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 6 >=350mg/m2 anthracycline doseenalapril maleate\< 4 years of age at diagnosis \< 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 7 >= 350mg/m2 anthracycline doseenalapril maleate\>= 4 years of age at diagnosis \< 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Stratum 8 >= 350mg/m2 anthracycline doseenalapril maleate\>= 4 years of age at diagnosis \>= 4 years since cessation of anthracycline treatment
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Cardiac functional status and quality of lifebaseline, two and five years

Cardiac functional status (depressed fractional shortening) and quality-of-life, will be assessed at baseline, two and five years into the study.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (61)

University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center

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Birmingham, Alabama, United States

MBCCOP - Gulf Coast

🇺🇸

Mobile, Alabama, United States

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

🇺🇸

Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

University of California San Diego Cancer Center

🇺🇸

La Jolla, California, United States

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford

🇺🇸

Palo Alto, California, United States

University of California Davis Medical Center

🇺🇸

Sacramento, California, United States

Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center

🇺🇸

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Walter Reed Army Medical Center

🇺🇸

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Shands Hospital and Clinics, University of Florida

🇺🇸

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Sylvester Cancer Center, University of Miami

🇺🇸

Miami, Florida, United States

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University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center
🇺🇸Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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