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A Prospective Study of Breast Cancer Patients With Abnormal Strain Imaging

The Cardio-Oncology program at Northwestern offers care to cancer patients who develop cardiac toxicities from chemotherapy. Breast cancer patients with the tumor marker for HER2 necessitate treatment with anthracycline and/or trastuzumab and pertuzumab-based chemotherapies, which are known to cause cardiac toxicities. Breast cancer patients will undergo a "cardio-oncology echocardiogram" which incorporates advanced left ventricular assessment by utilizing deformation or strain imaging during chemotherapy treatment for surveillance of cardiac toxicities. The aims of this project are: To create a registry of both clinical, and echocardiographic variables, biomarkers, and genetic analysis that will be used to develop a risk model to predict LV dysfunction in early stage breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy with anthracycline and/or trastuzumab and pertuzumab-based chemotherapy regimens. To propose a new management algorithm for initiation of prophylactic beta-blocker therapy for early stage breast cancer patients with preclinical cardiac toxicities demonstrated by strain parameters. To determine if initiation of prophylactic beta-blocker therapy in patients with early cardiac toxicity can delay or prevent a drop in LV EF and the development of clinical heart failure. To explore serial measurements of a suite of novel biomarkers during ongoing anticancer treatment that are presumed but not yet proven to be predictive of cardiac dysfunction in women with breast cancer. To identify DNA biomarkers of predilection to cardiotoxicity. To generate hiPSC to validate markers predictive of cardiotoxicity.

Start: April 2015
Efficacy and Safety of Trastuzumab Biosimilar (Herzuma®) Plus Treatment of Physician's Choice (TPC) in Patients With HER-2 Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer

Trastuzumab combined with chemotherapy has been approved as the first line therapy in HER2+ metastatic breast cancer. When patients experienced progression beyond trastuzumab containing therapy, T-DM1 is considered as the second line therapy followed by trastuzumab plus any other chemotherapeutic agents or lapatinib plus capecitabine. A biosimilar drug is a biological product that is highly similar to a licensed biological product, with no clinically meaningful differences in terms of safety, purity, or potency. Several trastuzumab biosimilar products have been approved after efficacy and safety studies which were usually as the first line setting with taxane combined. Even though trastuzumab biosimilar drugs demonstrated similarity of equivalence with trastuzumab in these studies, the efficacy of their second use beyond progression with other chemotherapeutic agents has not been tested yet. In addition, the investigators don't have any data regarding possible cross reactivity between trastuzumab and trastuzumab biosimilar drugs. In this study, the investigators plan multicenter phase II clinical trial to test the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of trastuzumab biosimilar, Herzuma® in combination with TPC in patients with HER2+ metastatic breast cancer who progressed after 2 or more HER-2 directed chemotherapy.

Start: December 2018