CardioPROTECTion with Dapagliflozin in Breast Cancer Patients Treated with AnthrAcycline - PROTECTAA TRIAL

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of dapagliflozin on the incidence of cancer therapeutics-related cardiac dysfunction in patients with breast cancer receiving anthracycline treatment.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

* Age \> 18 years and \< 80 years.
* Diagnosis of invasive breast cancer \[stage I-III\] and planned anthracycline treatment within 60 days.
* Signed Informed Consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Urinary tract infection with the need for treatment with an antibiotic 48 hours before the scheduled start of anthracycline treatment.
* Recognised heart failure or symptoms which, in the opinion of the investigator may be a symptom of undiagnosed heart failure.
* Left ventricular ejection fraction \< 50% at the time of the screening.
* Severe valvular heart disease.
* A history of clinically significant arrhythmia, including atrial fibrillation regardless of type (at discretion of the investigator).
* A history of stroke.
* Cardiomyopathy: congenital, post-inflammatory, toxic, infiltrative (e.g. amyloidosis, sarcoidosis, haemochromatosis), postnatal or hypertrophic.
* Pulmonary hypertension.
* Uncontrolled arterial pressure or systolic pressure \< 80 mmHg at screening (at the discretion of the investigator).
* BMI \> 40 kg/m2.
* Diagnosed type 1 or type 2 diabetes or fasting glucose ≥ 126 mg/dl or HbA1C ≥ 6,5% (48 mmol/mol).
* Pregnancy or breastfeeding.
* Lack of compliance to use highly effective method of birth control.
* Expected or possible treatment with epirubicin or liposomal doxorubicin within 12 months.
* Taking another study drug or drugs from the group of SGLT2 inhibitors up to 6 months before the screening visit.
* Taking semaglutide, liraglutide and metformin during the 30 days preceding the screening visit.
* eGFR \< 25 ml/min/1.73m2 according to CKD EPI.
* Life expectancy \< 12 months or cancer disease stage IV according to the TNM classification.
* Alanine transaminase or aspartate transaminase levels above 2.5 times the local norm.
* Anemia with Hemoglobin \< 9 g/dl.
* Kidney failure \> G2 (according to KDIGO classification).
* Liver disorders, Child-Pugh score \> 4.
* Known, active infections with HIV, HBV, HCV, tuberculosis.
* Any other condition which, in the opinion of the investigator, makes it impossible to fulfill the requirements for participation in this study.

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