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Cardiotoxicity evaluation in patients treated with a mitoxantrone combination as adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer.
Anticancer Research 1992 January
Indices of cardiac function were measured in 49 women who received adjuvant treatment for stage II breast cancer. The combination chemotherapy consisted of six monthly courses of cyclophosphamide, 500 mg/m2, mitoxantrone, 10 mg/m2 and fluorouracil, 500 mg/m2 (CNF). Left ventricular function was assessed by echocardiography, systolic time intervals and nuclear angiography. The values of the echocardiographic left ventricular end diastolic diameter (Dd) and end systolic diameter (Ds), and those of the index of preejection period (PEPI) and the ratio of the preejection period to left ventricular ejection time (PEP/LVET), determined in 41 patients before chemotherapy, at midcourse and after chemotherapy by echocardiography and systolic time intervals (STI), showed a slight but significant increase. All these values remained within normal limits. Resting nuclear angiography, performed before and after treatment, showed a decrease in LVEF by 10% or more in four patients; the postchemotherapy values remained within the normal range in all cases. In conclusion, adjuvant treatment of breast cancer patients with 6 cycles of the CNF combination, as judged by its effect on the measured indices, does not appear to be cardiotoxic.
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