Trastuzumab-induced cardiotoxicity in Uruguayan HER2-positive breast cancer patients.

Authors

Andrea Schiavone

Andrea Schiavone

Servicio de Oncologia Clinica, Hospital de Clinicas, Montevideo, Uruguay

Andrea Schiavone , Mariana Diaz , Natalia Camejo , Natalia Reborido , Horacio Vazquez , Gabriel Parma , Alvaro Vazquez , Cecilia Castillo , Gabriel David Krygier , Lucia Beatriz Delgado

Organizations

Servicio de Oncologia Clinica, Hospital de Clinicas, Montevideo, Uruguay, Hospital de Clinicas, Montevideo, Uruguay, Asociacion Española, Montevideo, Uruguay, Asociacion Española Primera en Salud, Montevideo, Uruguay, Hospital De Clinicas, Montevideo, Uruguay

Research Funding

No funding sources reported

Background: To evaluate the incidence, severity and outcome of Trastuzumab-induced cardiotoxicity in HER2 positive Uruguayan breast cancer (BC) patients. Methods: Retrospective observational analysis of HER2 positive BC patients who were treated with Trastuzumab (TTZ) from January 2007 to December 2013 at two Uruguayan centers. Cardiac monitoring included physical examination and assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) by echocardiography that was evaluated before TTZ administration and every 12 weeks thereafter during the duration of therapy. Cardiovascular risk factors analyzed were: obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2), hypertension, diabetes, sedentary lifestyle and high cholesterol. Results: Sixty nine female patients were found in the databases of our institutions. Median age was 48 years (range: 27-73). Stage at diagnosis was as detailed: 19 % EI, 46 % EII, 29 % EIII and 4 % EIV. Eighty nine percent of patients received adjuvant TTZ , 4 % neoadjuvant TTZ and 7 % received it as a palliative therapy. Thirty patients (43, 5%) had at least one cardiovascular risk factors: 26% hypertension, 16% obesity, 9% sedentary lifestyle, and 4% high cholesterol. Median number of TTZ cycles was 15. Cycles were administered every 3 weeks at standard dose. Nineteen patients (27%) developed cardiotoxicity, of whom 12 had a transient suspension because of a reversible fall in LVEF, 2 had a irreversible reduction in LVEF, and 5 had a symptomatic heart failure. Eighty-nine percent of our patients (62 patients) completed treatment and the rest had a definitive suspension due to a irreversible reduction in LVEF or symptomatic heart failure. Most patients that developed cardiotoxicity (15 out of 19) had cardiovascular risk factors and also most of them (16 out of 19) had received anthracyclines before TTZ. Conclusions: Cardiotoxicity incidence was similar to the incidence reported in the literature and when it was present, in most cases was transient, asymptomatic, and reversible.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2015 Breast Cancer Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session B: Systemic Therapy, Survivorship, and Health Policy

Track

Systemic Therapy,Local/Regional Therapy,Survivorship and Health Policy

Sub Track

HER2+

Citation

J Clin Oncol 33, 2015 (suppl 28S; abstr 143)

DOI

10.1200/jco.2015.33.28_suppl.143

Abstract #

143

Poster Bd #

H6

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