Stress Echocardiography to Identify Chemotherapy Induced Cardiotoxicity in Cancer Patients With Heart Failure Risk

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine whether changes in the following parameters of cardiac function at rest or with low intensity exercise occur following (1) treatment with cancer therapeutics or (2) cardiac rehabilitation:

Ia. 2-Dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) left ventricular (LV) longitudinal strain and strain rate; Ib. Right ventricular (RV) longitudinal strain and strain rate; Ic. LV circumferential and radial strain and strain rate; Id. 2D and 3D wall motion; Ie. 2D and 3D volumetric left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF); If. Mitral valve inflow velocities (E, A) and mitral annular tissue Doppler (e', a'); Ig. Tricuspid tissue velocities and tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE).

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine whether changes after treatment with cancer therapeutics or a period of cardiac rehabilitation in any of the aforementioned parameters of cardiac function with low intensity exercise:

Ia. Occur before changes in resting strain or resting LVEF; Ib. Predict future reductions in LVEF (cardiotoxicity) or in the case of cardiac rehabilitation, prevention of LVEF decrease; Ic. Predict the development of clinical heart failure.

OUTLINE: Participants are assigned to 1 of 2 groups.

GROUP I (CASE): Patients choose to undergo either a resting echocardiography performed before and after delivery of a cancer therapeutic agent and months 3, 6, 9 and 12 or up to 5 low intensity stress echocardiography over 25 minutes performed depending on where they are at in the course of their cancer therapy and/or cardiac rehabilitation program at baseline and/or months 3, 6, 9 and 12 after starting cancer therapy.

GROUP II (CONTROL): Participants undergo low intensity stress echocardiography over 25 minutes at baseline and may undergo a second one at least 24 hours later.

After completion of study intervention, patients in Group 1 are followed up at 2, 5, and 10 years.

Inclusion criteria

• Current or previous diagnosis of solid organ cancers (breast, non-small cell lung, rectal, renal, hepatic cancer, metastatic melanoma, sarcoma) or hematological disease (lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance [MGUS])
• Age >= 18 years at study enrollment
• Plan to receive, or history of having received, chemotherapy (anthracycline, alkylating agent [cyclophosphamide, ifosfamide], and/or antimicrotubule agent [docetaxel, paclitaxel]) with or without specific targeted therapies;

• Anti-HER2 targeted therapies (trastuzumab, pertuzumab)
• Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitors (bevacizumab, sunitinib, sorafenib, pazopanib, axitinib, vandetanib)
• Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ipilimumab, nivolumab, pembrolizumab)
• Plan to undergo conditioning chemotherapy for bone marrow transplantation (autologous/allogeneic)

Exclusion criteria

• Coronary artery disease
• Significant (more than mild) valvular heart disease
• Pre-existing heart failure
• Pre-existing cardiomyopathy
• Musculoskeletal or neurologic abnormality prohibiting low intensity exercise on a stationary bicycle
• Severe pulmonary disease limiting ability to perform low intensity exercise on a stationary bicycle