Clinical trial · Interventional
Prevention of Cardiac Dysfunction During Breast Cancer Therapy
PRevention of cArdiac Dysfunction During Adjuvant Breast Cancer Therapy: A Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Multicenter Trial
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. The modern post-surgery treatment with chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation and hormone therapy has improved the overall 5-years survival drastically. However, an unwanted effect of the post-surgery treatment is its potentially deleterious effect on the heart resulting in cardiac dysfunction. Angiotensin antagonists are used as part of the heart failure treatment. In smaller studies angiotensin antagonists have shown to have a cardioprotective effect during breast cancer treatment. Sacubitril/valsartan is a potent drug that in addition to an angiotensin antagonist contains a neprilysin inhibitor. Sacubitril/valsartan has proved to be superior to enalapril in chronic heart failure. In this randomized placebo controlled double blind trial we hypothesize that sacubitril/valsartan used concomitantly during anthracycline containing chemotherapy for breast cancer treatment prevents cardiac dysfunction as measured by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR). PRADA II is a Norwegian multicenter trial intending to recruit 214 patients and follow them for 18 months with CMR, cardiac ultrasound, blood samples, functional capacity tests and health related quality of life questionnaires.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breast Cancer Female | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Heart Failure | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacubitril/valsartan | Drug | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Sacubitril/valsartan
- description
- Sacubitril/valsartan (target dose 97/103 mg b.i.d.) and matching placebo will be provided orally in a 1:1 parallel fashion stratified by study site and for planned treatment with trastuzumab. Dose titration will be performed as follows: Sacubitril/valsartan 24/26 mg b.i.d. will be administered for 2-4 weeks and provided blood pressure \> 100 mmHg, no symptoms of hypotension or other side effects or adverse events (AE), followed by sacubitril/valsartan 49/51 mg b.i.d. for 2-4 weeks. Provided blood pressure \> 100 mmHg, no symptoms of hypotension or other side effects or AE a further uptitration to sacubitril/valsartan 97/103 mg b.i.d. will be performed.
- interventionNames
- Drug: Sacubitril/valsartan
- type
- PLACEBO_COMPARATOR
- label
- Placebo
- description
- Matched to the comparator.
- interventionNames
- Drug: Sacubitril/valsartan
Primary outcomes (1)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Women with histological evidence of invasive early breast cancer scheduled for adjuvant therapy with anti-cancer regimens that include anthracyclines * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status 0-1 * Sinus rhythm Exclusion criteria: * Age \<18 years * Renal failure, i.e. serum creatinine greater than 133 mol/L (1.5mg/dL) or estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) \< 45 mL/min/1.73m2 * Hyperkalemia, i.e. serum potassium greater than 5.0 mmol/L * Systolic blood pressure \< 100 mgHg * Uncontrolled hypertension * Acute myocardial infarction within the last three months * Contraindication to ACEI or ARB or sacubitril/valsartan, including previous hypersensitivity reaction, angioedema and renal artery stenosis * ACEI, ARB, aldosterone antagonist or sacubitril/valsartan use within 4 weeks of study start * Clear indication for ACEI, ARB, aldosterone antagonist or sacubitril/valsartan therapy, including symptomatic heart failure * History of hemodynamically significant valvular disease * Active liver disease, i.e. alanine aminotransferase or aspartate aminotransferase greater than 1.5 times the upper limit of normal * Participation in another pharmaceutical clinical trial of an investigational medicinal product (IMP) less than 4 weeks prior to inclusion or use of other investigational drugs within 5 halflives of enrollment, whichever is longer * Conditions that would affect the participants to comply with the study protocol as psychiatric or mental disorders, alcohol abuse or other substance abuse, suspected poor drug compliance, language barriers or other factors * Contraindication or inability to undergo CMR examination * Fertile women with inadequate birth control, pregnancy, and/or breastfeeding. Adequate contraception includes oral, injected or implanted hormonal methods of contraception, placement of an intrauterine device or system, vasectomized partner or sexual abstinence. Fertile women are defined as following menarche and until becoming postmenopausal unless permanently sterile. A postmenopausal state is defined as no menses for 12 months without an alternative medical cause * Life expectancy \< 12 months
References
Publications (2)
- DERIVEDOmland T, Heck SL, Holte E, Lilleaasen AM, Gynnild MN, Fagerland MW, Vinje-Jakobsen V, Naes AL, Blix ES, Larsen AI, Geisler J, Gulati G, Wethal T. Sacubitril/Valsartan and Prevention of Cardiac Dysfunction During Adjuvant Breast Cancer Therapy: The PRADA II Randomized Clinical Trial. Circulation. 2025 Oct 21;152(16):1136-1145. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.125.076616. Epub 2025 Aug 29. PMID 40884047
- DERIVEDMecinaj A, Gulati G, Heck SL, Holte E, Fagerland MW, Larsen AI, Blix ES, Geisler J, Wethal T, Omland T. Rationale and design of the PRevention of cArdiac Dysfunction during Adjuvant breast cancer therapy (PRADA II) trial: a randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial. Cardiooncology. 2021 Sep 27;7(1):33. doi: 10.1186/s40959-021-00115-w. PMID 34579775