The goal of this study is to see if a special type of heart scan called a diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) that uses extra measurements, can be used to find early signs of heart damage from chemotherapy.
This prospective single institutional pilot study will enroll breast cancer patients who develop cardiotoxicity while on anthracycline and anti-HER2 therapy . The control group will be composed of patients on similar anthracycline therapy and dose but without a decline in LVEF on Cardiac MRI (CMR). Clinic visits with monitoring for cardiotoxicity occur as part of standard of care after therapy initiation. The study and control group will be composed of 15 patients each. At the discretion of the treating physician, patients will be recruited from the Breast Medical Oncology Service.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
28
Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester
Harrison, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
presence of edema
associated with cardiotoxicity as visualized on DWI by the attending cardiac imagers we may explore the association of the presence of edema on DWI with a drop in LVEF \> 10% using exact logistic regression
Time frame: 1 year
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