Synthetic Tables


Drug

CV complication

Percentage

Dosage

Alemtuzumab

Hypotension, heart failure

Rare
 
Arsenic trioxide

QT prolongation

26–93 %
 
Axitinib

Hypertension

4–16 %
 
Bevacizumab

Thromboembolic arterial complications

12 %
 
CHF

1.7–3 %

Hypertension

4–35 %

Ischemia

0.6–1.5 %

Bortezomib

CHF

2–5 %
 
Busulfan

Endomyocardial fibrosis, pericardial effusions
 
>600 mg

Capecitabine

Ischemia less frequent than 5-FU

3–9 %
 
Cetuximab

Hypotension (during reaction: bronchospasm, stridor, urticaria)
  
Cyclophosphamide [1–3]

Pericardial effusions, heart failure, and myopericarditis

7–28 %

>100–120 mg/kg

Patients undergoing autologous or allogeneic HSCT

5–10 %
 
Cisplatin

Heart failure

8 %

>400 mg/m2

Thromboembolic complications (venous thromboembolism)

18 %
 
Cytarabine ARA-C

Pericarditis, heart failure in association with cyclophosphamide
  
Clofarabine

CHF transient

27 %
 
Dasatinib

CHF

2–4 %
 
Pericarditis

Rare

QT prolongation

<1–3 %

Docetaxel

CHF

2.3–8 %
 
Ischemia

1.7 %

Doxorubicin

Heart failure

3–26 %

400 mg/mq

Heart failure

18–48 %

550 mg/mq

Dovitinib

No data
  
Epirubicin [4]

Heart failure

0.9–3.3 %

>800 mg/m2

Clinically overt cardiotoxicity

6 %

Subclinical CHF

18 %

Everolimus

No relevant cardiotoxicity
  
Erlotinib

Venous thromboembolism

3.9–11 %
 
Ischemia

2.3 %

5-Fluorouracil

Ischemia or severe ventricular arrhythmias

1–68 %
 
Gemcitabine

No cardiotoxicity
  
Idarubicin

Heart failure

5–18 %
 
Ifosfamide

CHF

17 %

>12.5 g/m2

Imatinib

CHF

0.5–1.7 %

300 mg/d

Il-2

Hypotension

Rare
 
Interferon alfa

Hypotension

Rare
 
Lapatinib

QT prolongation

16 %
 
CHF

1.5–2.2 %

Lenalidomide

Venous thromboembolism

1–58 %
 
Liposomal anthracyclines

Heart failure

2 %
 
Mitomycin C

Heart failure

3 %
 
Mitoxantrone

Heart failure

2.6 %

>150 mg/mq

Nilotinib

QT prolongation

1–10 %
 
Paclitaxel

Bradycardia

<1–31 %
 
Ischemia

<1–5 %

Pazopanib

Hypertension, heart failure
  
Pentostatin

Heart failure

Rare
 
Raltitrexed [5]

No cardiotoxicity, alone or in combination with irinotecan or oxaliplatin, good option in patients that experienced cardiotoxicity with 5-FUO or capecitabine
  
Retinoic acid

Heart failure, pericardial effusion, hypotension

Rare
 
Rituximab

Hypotension, angioedema
  
Sorafenib

Ischemia

2.7–3 %
 
Hypertension

17–43 %

Sunitinib

Hypertension

5–47 %
 
Systolic and diastolic dysfunction, heart failure

1.7–3 %

Tamoxifen

Thromboembolic complications
  
Tivozanib

No data
  
Trastuzumab [1]

CHF and LVD

2–28 %
 
Vandetanib

QTc prolongation

<3 %
 
Vinca alkaloids

Myocardial ischemia
  
Vorinostat

QT prolongation

3.5–6 %
 
Venous thromboembolism

4.7–8 %


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2. Ozkan HA. Assessment and comparison of acute cardiac toxicity during high-dose cyclophosphamide and high-dose etoposide stem cell mobilization regimens with N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide. Transfus Apher Sci. 2014;50(1):46

3. Kupari M. Cardiac involvement in bone marrow transplantation: electrocardiographic changes, arrhythmia, heart failure and autopsy findings. Bone Marrow Transplant. 1990;5:91

4. Lotrionte M. Review and meta-analysis of incidence and clinical predictors of anthracycline cardiotoxicity. Am J Cardiol. 2013;112

5. Ransom D. Final results of ARCTIC study: an audit of raltitrexed for patients with cardiac toxicity induced by fluoropyrimidines. Ann Oncol. 2014;1:11




Table 7.2
What cancer/what possible drug/what possible complication: breast

























Cancer type

Possible drug

Possible complication
 
5-Fluorouracil, epirubicin, cyclophosphamide followed by trastuzumab [1]

Heart failure, ischemia

Docetaxel + cyclophosphamide + methotrexate + 5-FO [2, 3]

Ischemia, heart failure

Paclitaxel, [4] trastuzumab, [5, 6] bevacizumab, gemcitabine, lapatinib, capecitabine, mitoxantrone, etoposide; letrozole, fadrozole, vorozole, formestane, exemestane, anastrozole [7]

Thromboembolic complications, ischemia, heart failure, hypertension, bradycardia

Tamoxifen [8]

Thromboembolic complications


1. Peto R. Comparisons between different polychemotherapy regimens for early breast cancer: meta-analyses of long-term outcome among 100,000 women in 123 randomized trials. Lancet. 2012;379:432

2. Jones SE. Phase III trial comparing doxorubicin plus cyclophosphamide with docetaxel plus cyclophosphamide as adjuvant therapy for operable breast cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2006;24:5381

3. Jones S. Docetaxel with cyclophosphamide is associated with an overall survival benefit compared with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide: 7-year follow-up of US Oncology Research trial 9735. J Clin Oncol. 2009;27:1177

4. Sparano JA. Weekly paclitaxel in the adjuvant treatment of breast cancer. N Engl J Med. 2008;358:1663

5. Perez EA. Four-year follow-up of trastuzumab plus adjuvant chemotherapy for operable human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer: joint analysis of data from NCCTG N9831 and NSABP B-31. J Clin Oncol. 2011;29:3366

6. Piccart M. Trastuzumab after adjuvant chemotherapy in HER2-positive breast cancer. First result of HERA trial. N Engl J Med. 2005;353:1659

7. Carrick S. Single agent versus combination chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009, Issue http://​www2.​cochrane.​org/​reviews/​en/​subtopics/​52.​html)

8. Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group (EBCTCG). Effects of chemotherapy and hormonal therapy for early breast cancer on recurrence and 15-year survival: an overview of the randomized trials. Lancet. 2005;365:1687



Table 7.3
What cancer/what possible drug/what possible complication: bladder
























Cancer type

Possible drug

Possible complication
 
Cisplatin, methotrexate, vinblastine [1, 2]

Heart failure, ischemia
 
Paclitaxel, cisplatin, gemcitabine [3]

Heart failure, ischemia, bradycardia, thromboembolic complications
 
Doxorubicin, epirubicin, paclitaxel, docetaxel, oxaliplatin, topotecan, lapatinib, gefitinib, bortezomib, vinflunine

Heart failure, ischemia, bradycardia, thromboembolic complications, prolong QT


1. Advanced Bladder Cancer (ABC) Meta-analysis Collaboration. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in invasive bladder cancer: update of a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data advanced bladder cancer (ABC) meta-analysis collaboration. Eur Urol. 2005;48:202

2. Griffiths G, International Collaboration of Trialists; Medical Research Council Advanced Bladder Cancer Working Party (now the National Cancer Research Institute Bladder Can Clinical Studies Group); European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Genito-Urinary Tract Cancer Group; Australian Bladder Cancer Study Group; National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group; Finnbladder; Norwegian Bladder Cancer Study Group; Club Urologico Espanol de Tratamiento Oncologico Group. International phase III trial assessing neoadjuvant cisplatin, methotrexate, and vinblastine chemotherapy for muscle invasive bladder cancer: long-term results of the BA06 30894 trial. J Clin Oncol. 2011;29:2171

3. Paz-Ares L, on behalf of the SOGUG and GUO-AEU groups. Randomized phase III trial comparing adjuvant paclitaxel/gemcitabine/cisplatin (PGC) to observation in patients with resected invasive bladder cancer: results of the SOGUG (Spanish Oncology Genito-Urinary Group) 99/01 study. ASCO. 2010;(abst)



Table 7.4
What cancer/what possible drug/what possible complication: gastrointestinal











Cancer type

Possible drug

Possible complication
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