This trial has two cohorts of patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER)-2-positive breast cancer that has spread to other places in the body. All patients must be receiving trastuzumab-based treatment. Both cohorts are being observed for cardiac toxicity. The largest cohort (currently open to accrual) is observational, and contains patients who are taking a beta blocker, ACE inhibitor, or ARB as well as their trastuzumab-based treatment. The goal is to understand how common cardiac problems are in this group of patients at high risk. The smaller cohort (currently closed to accrual) is randomized. Patients in this second cohort are randomized to either carvedilol or no treatment, with the goal of seeing whether carvedilol (used to treat heart failure and high blood pressure) may prevent the heart from side effects of chemotherapy.
STEP 1 REGISTRATION
Have metastatic breast cancer, AND
Be initiating within 11 calendar days of Step 1 Registration OR be continuing trastuzumab-based HER-2 targeted therapy without concurrent anthracyclines, AND
Be receiving the trastuzumab-based HER-2 targeted therapy for metastatic disease in first, second, third-, or fourth-line setting. Patients may have brain metastasis. There is no limit for number of doses of HER-2 targeted therapy prior to registration.
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Parallel
Carvedilol
DrugGiven PO
Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Other interventionCorrelative studies
Patient Observation
Other interventionUndergo observation
Time to the first identification of cardiac dysfunction
Real-time, blinded, central echocardiography (ECHO) read as a decrease in the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of \>= 10 percentage points from baseline to a value of \< 50% OR decrease of LVEF by \>= 5 percentage points from baseline to LVEF \< 50% in those baselines having a baseline LVEF of 50-54%. The distributions of time to cardiac dysfunction will be described using cumulative incidence estimates, with the statistical significance of treatment arm differences assessed by Cox and Fine-Gray regression models with adjustment for stratification factors. Gray's test will also be applied
Incidence of adverse events associated with beta blocker treatment
Adverse events associated with beta blocker treatment will be assessed.
Rate of first interruption of trastuzumab
The distributions of time to interruption of trastuzumab-based therapy will be described using cumulative incidence estimates, with the statistical significance of treatment arm differences assessed by Cox and Fine-Gray regression models with adjustment for stratification factors. Gray?s test will also be applied to the primary endpoint to assess whether the results are sensitive to different model assumptions.
Rate of death
Will compare rate of death from competing causes between treatment arms via Cox regression to evaluate whether those rates impact the primary analysis comparison.
Time to first occurrence of cardiac event
any of the following treating physician documented events requiring hospitalization or medical treatment, and subsequent temporary or permanent discontinuation of trastuzumab- based HER-2 targeted therapy: arrhythmia, unstable angina, non-ST segment elevated myocardial infarction, myocardial infarction, or congestive heart failure.
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SWOG Cancer Research Network
Lead sponsor
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Collaborator
