Active clinical trials for "Cardiotoxicity"

By dynamically observing the changes of echocardiogram and biomarkers in breast cancer patients using trastuzumab, evaluate the effect of trastuzumab on cardiac function; determine the sensitivity of echocardiography and biomarker indicators And specificity, explore effective and specific early warning indicators, and provide technical support for the evaluation of the cardiac safety of anti-tumor drugs.

This is a prospective observational study on a cohort of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer M0, treated with Apalutamide, at the Oncology Unit of the "Andrea Tortora" Hospital of Pagani. Data will be collected on the patient's clinical history and the treatments carried out until the start of therapy with Apalutamide. At that time the study will be described to the patient and informed consent will be given. In case of a favorable opinion from the patient, the CRF will be filled in. Patients with CRPC M0 treated with Apalutamide, belonging to the Oncology Unit of the Pagani Hospital "Andrea Tortora" and of the other Oncology Units of the ASL of Salerno (Hospital of Vallo della Lucania) will be studied with the possibility of enrollment also from other Centers outside the Salerno ASL.

Aluminum phosphide (AlP) or rice tablet is a cheap pesticide. When it comes in contact with acid (gastric acid) or moisture, it releases phosphine (PH3) gas. The heart,lungs, liver are the main targets in acute Aluminum phosphide (AlP) poisoning. Most deaths occur due to cardiovascular toxicity.

Explore the effects of anti-VEGF targeted drugs on blood pressure and endothelial function in cancer patients.

Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in Canada. For approximately 30% of patients that present with locally-advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the standard treatment is curative-intent concurrent chemoradiotherapy. Outcomes remain poor, with 5-year survival of only 20%. Despite the long-held belief that higher radiation doses lead to improved overall survival (OS), the landmark randomized trial (RTOG 0617) showed the opposite. The investigators hypothesize that the inferior survival observed may be due to unexpected heart toxicity as secondary analysis revealed that the heart dose was a strong predictor of inferior OS. Up to now, change in heart function is typically detected histologically, requiring autopsy tissue. Therefore, a non-invasive marker of early heart damage is required. Hybrid PET-MRI has become available in Canada only recently. The ability to simultaneously perform metabolic imaging with functional and tissue imaging allows for novel assessment of heart toxicity. The primary objective is to examine the utility of hybrid PET-MRI and DCE-CT to assess acute changes in heart function and to measure inflammation before, and six weeks after NSCLC radiotherapy. A pilot of 20 patients with Stage I-III NSCLC will be enrolled. The findings of this study will aid in the design of new studies to reassess dose escalation for locally advanced NSCLC while limiting the risk of heart toxicity. FDG PET will be used to simultaneously assess both cardiac inflammation and tumour response. Quantitative DCE-CT will also be used to measure ventilation and perfusion changes in the normal lung and tumour after radiotherapy, providing image data that can comprehensively assess both tumour response and potential toxicity in both the heart and lungs. Such information is crucial in understanding the disease and its response to treatment. This data will also aid in the design of radiation techniques that spare the heart in other patients with any thoracic malignancies, including breast cancer, lymphoma, and esophageal cancer.

The introduction of trastuzumab for the treatment of patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive breast cancer has had a major impact upon cancer outcomes. However, cardiac toxicity remains a substantial concern. Conventionally, this toxicity has been considered as a transient and reversible phenomenon occurring in the immediate peri-treatment period in around 20% of patients. Current guidelines recommend monitoring heart function during treatment and at completion. Recent registry data suggest that trastuzumab-related cardiotoxicity may also manifest in the longer-term. The nature and longer-term prevalence of left ventricular dysfunction with HER2 positive breast cancer treated with trastuzumab is unclear. The aim of this project is to define the prevalence of left ventricular dysfunction late after completion of trastuzumab therapy.

Thoracic malignancy is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide.1,2 The incidence of thoracic malignancy has decreased in North America, but not in Asia, where it continues to show an increasing trend. A notable manifestation of the bimodal age distribution of thoracic malignancy has been observed in women. The occurrence of early-onset thoracic malignancy in the Asian population is earlier than that in the Western population, resulting in a higher incidence of thoracic malignancy in young Asian women. Moreover, the late onset age distribution of patients with thoracic malignancy in Asia (40-50 years) is earlier than that in Western countries (60-70 years), peaking at the age of 45-50 years in most women. The age-specific incidence rates of thoracic malignancy increase sharply until the menopausal stage. Cardiovascular morbidity is higher among women with thoracic malignancy involving the thorax who had received radiotherapy (RT) compared with those not involving the thorax but receiving the same treatment. Thus far, the risks and time to onset of cardiac complications have been unclear in both young and old women. The proportion of young women with thoracic malignancy is higher in Asia than in Western countries. Furthermore, whether Asian women with thoracic malignancy are susceptible to RT remains unclear. Anthracyclines are important therapeutic agents for breast cancer. Anthracycline-based regimens have similar or improved outcomes relative to the standard treatment regimen of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil. However, cardiotoxicity is a long-term toxicity associated with these regimens. The combined use of adjuvant anthracycline-based chemotherapy (CT) and RT may result in high cardiotoxicity. Nonetheless, no clear information on the effects of this combined therapy on the time to onset of both cardiac complications and cardiotoxicity is available. Furthermore, whether the cardiotoxicity of adjuvant RT and anthracycline-based CT is associated with age and ethnicity in women with thoracic malignancy remains unclear. Therefore, cardiovascular disease is undoubtedly one of the most challenging health problems in the world. More efforts are needed to prevent and better control of this disease. Our proposed monitoring program is to use AI to monitor the basal value variation of personalized cardiovascular disease in cancer patients before and after chemoradiation. In the first year, our team focused on cardiotoxicity associated with cardiovascular disease models and cancer treatments. In the second year, we will apply knowledge in a clinical setting and calculate the severity of cardiac toxicity and its incidence and time response after cancer treatment. In the third year, high-risk groups will be identified to provide preventive intervention to reduce the risk of cancer-treatment related cardiotoxicity.

PULSE-ECCho will focus on trying to detect cardiotoxicity in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy early on in order to avoid irreversible damage. In addition to that, we will test if the PhysioFlow is non-inferior to the conventional MUGA scan.

Herceptin has shown significant improvement in breast cancer therapy and improved survival of patients over-expressing the HER-2 protein by 50%. However, Herceptin has shown to negatively affect the heart, and frequent heart monitoring with multiple gated acquisition (MUGA) scans is required. MUGA scans use radiation and are not very accurate. This study will use cardiac magnetic resonance images (CMRs) to evaluate heart function and compare to MUGA scans in patients receiving Herceptin for early-stage breast cancer. In addition, novel biomarkers will also be assessed at the same time to help identify possible patients at risk for developing heart toxicities.

Using Multi-tracer to early diagnosis of therapy-associated cardiotoxicity using multimodality PET/MRI.