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CompletedNCT03265574PROACTUpdated Feb 20, 2024

PROACT: Can we Prevent Chemotherapy-related Heart Damage in Patients With Breast Cancer and Lymphoma?

A Phase 3 interventional study of Enalapril in Breast Cancer and Non Hodgkin Lymphoma, sponsored by South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Completed at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-02-20.

Sponsored by South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Phase 3, Interventional, and Prevention

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Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
111
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-13

Among 757 studies in Breast Neoplasms with a site in United Kingdom — 98 open to participants now, 196 under way, 67 of them phase 3. Breast Neoplasms · United Kingdom.

Enrollment
403rd of 613
111 · median 221
Started
2017
with 36 others
Phase 3
220 of 757
20 open now
Registered
457th of 757
by date

Among the 757 studies in Breast Neoplasms with a site in United Kingdom, this one is the 403rd largest by enrollment of the 613 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 37 that started in 2017, is one of 220 in phase 3, and was the 457th registered.

Breast Neoplasms

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Open to participants now

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This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

PROACT will establish the effectiveness of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) enalapril maleate (enalapril) in preventing cardiotoxicity in patients with breast cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma undergoing adjuvant epirubicin-based chemotherapy.

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PROACT is a phase 3 randomised, open label, blinded endpoint, superiority trial of enalapril to prevent anthracycline-induced in patients treated for breast cancer and lymphoma.

Anthracyclines used in the treatment of breast cancer cause damage to heart muscle cells; this results in cell death (cardiotoxicity). In UK contemporary practice, epirubicin is the most frequently used anthracycline.

Patients due to receive adjuvant anthracycline chemotherapy (planned epirubicin dose >300mg/m2) for breast cancer at four specialist centres in the North of England will be invited to participate. 170 eligible patients will be randomised in a 1:1 ratio, to either enalapril plus usual care or to usual care. Enalapril will be commenced prior to the first anthracycline dose, titrated to a maximum tolerated dose, and continued during chemotherapy. Chemotherapy will continue per usual care; typically six treatment cycles. Patients will have a blood test performed at the end of each chemotherapy cycle to measure cardiac troponin, and at one month following the last epirubicin dose. Investigators and patients will be blinded to the troponin results. Patients will have an echocardiogram at baseline and following their chemotherapy; they will be assessed in a blinded manner by a central Core Laboratory.

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Conditions studied

  • Breast Cancer
  • Non Hodgkin Lymphoma
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Written .
  • Adult patients with histopathologically* confirmed breast carcinoma who have received surgery for their breast cancer; planned to receive 6 cycles of EC 90 (total planned dose 540mg/m2 epirubicin) or FEC 75 (total planned dose 450mg/m2 epirubicin) chemotherapy regimen. Patients with + breast cancer are eligible for inclusion.

OR

  • Adult patients with histopathologically confirmed non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), planned to receive 6 cycles of R-CHOP or CHOP (total planned dose 300mg/m2 doxorubicin) chemotherapy**

    • Patients with HER2+ breast cancer are eligible for inclusion. ** Patients who will receive an alternative anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody are eligible (for example O-CHOP), as long as the total planned doxorubicin dose is ≥300mg/m2 over 6 cycles

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Positive baseline cardiac troponin T (≥14ng/L);
  • known to ACE inhibitor e.g. renal artery stenosis, severe aortic stenosis;
  • are taking, or have a previous intolerance to ACEI (e.g. angioedema);
  • patient already taking other agents acting on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system e.g. Aliskiren, angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), Entresto (sacubitril/valsartan), spironolactone, eplerenone;
  • \<50%*;
  • estimated \< 30 mL/min/1.73m2 at baseline;
  • hyperkalaemia defined as serum potassium ≥5.5mmol/L;
  • symptomatic hypotension, or Systolic Blood Pressure \<100mmHg;
  • poorly-controlled hypertension (Blood Pressure >160/100mmHg**, or ambulatory BP of 150/95mmHg);
  • previous myocardial infarction;
  • known breast cancer;
  • previous exposure to anthracycline chemotherapy;
  • are pregnant or breastfeeding;
  • previous Herceptin treatment or planned Herceptin treatment within four weeks following anthracycline chemotherapy;
  • for patients of : refusal to use adequate throughout the trial;***
  • any other invasive cancer diagnosed and treated in the past 5 years;
  • symptomatic or severe asymptomatic radiation-induced cardiac disease;
  • judgement by the investigator that the patient has a prognosis of \< 1 year or are unlikely to complete 6 cycles of chemotherapy;
  • judgement by the investigator that the patient is high risk for tumour lysis syndrome (applicable only to NHL patients);
  • judgement by the Investigator that the patient should not participate in the study, for example, if the patient is unlikely to comply with study procedures, restrictions, and requirements.

    *\<50% as defined by Simpson's biplane method; if absolute measurements are not possible, then a visually normal assessment of LVEF is acceptable for inclusion.

    **White coat hypertension is more common, and should be ruled out by an ambulatory blood pressure monitor

    ***Female patients between the ages of 18 and 50 will receive a pregnancy test at baseline. Adequate methods of contraception are those that can achieve a failure rate of less than

    1% per year when used consistently and correctly, such methods include:

  • combined (estrogen and progestogen containing) hormonal contraception associated with inhibition of ovulation

    • oral
    • intravaginal
    • transdermal
  • progestogen-only hormonal contraception associated with inhibition of ovulation

    • oral
    • injectable
    • implantable
  • intrauterine device (IUD)
  • intrauterine hormone-releasing system (IUS)
  • bilateral tubal occlusion
  • vasectomy/vasectomised partner
  • true sexual abstinence
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(9)

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Informed consent

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You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Adjuvant and neoadjuvant

Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.

HER2

HER2 is a protein, made from the ERBB2 gene, that drives the growth of some cancers. A study may look for a level of the protein, extra copies of the gene, or a particular change in it.

In breast cancer, protein tests are read as HER2-positive, HER2-low or HER2-negative; other cancers use their own rules. Check which test result the study requires.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
111 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Intervention

    Drug: Enalapril

  • No intervention
    Standard care

Interventions

  • Enalapril is an Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) inhibitor which supresses the reninangiotensin-aldosterone system resulting in increased plasma renin activity and decreased aldosterone secretion

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Cardiac troponin T release

    Cardiac troponin T release during anthracycline treatment

    Time frame: One month after last dose of anthracycline

Secondary outcomes

  1. Cardiac function

    Cardiac function assessed by echocardiogram

    Time frame: One month after last dose of anthracycline

  2. Adherence to enalapril

    Ability of participant to adhere to enalapril

    Time frame: One month after last dose of anthracycline

  3. Adverse Events / Reactions

    Number and severity of Adverse Events and Reactions

    Time frame: One month after last dose of anthracycline

  4. Anxiety or distress related to trial participation

    Anxiety or distress related to trial participation

    Time frame: One month after last dose of anthracycline

  5. Cancer and chemotherapy outcomes

    Cancer and chemotherapy outcomes in the population under study

    Time frame: One month after last dose of anthracycline

  6. Cardiac troponin I release

    cardiac troponin I release during anthracyline treatment

    Time frame: One month after last dose of anthracycline

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Study locations

1 site
  • South Tees Hospitals NHS FT
    Middlesbrough, Teesside TS4 3BW, United Kingdom
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Oct 2017 to primary completion in Aug 2023, 70 months.

Of 328 non-industry phase 3 interventional studies under Breast Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 79 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 50 and three quarters within 127. This study's 70 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 600 studies reached it within 59 months; a quarter within 36 and three quarters within 96.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Aug 24, 2017
First posted
Aug 29, 2017
StartActual
Oct 4, 2017
Primary completionActual
Aug 4, 2023
CompletionActual
Aug 4, 2023
Last update
Feb 20, 2024
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 20, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03265574
Lead sponsor
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Collaborators
Newcastle University, University of Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 29, 2017
Start date
Oct 4, 2017
Primary completion
Aug 4, 2023
Completion
Aug 4, 2023
Last update
Feb 20, 2024

Study contacts

Victoria Hildreth
study chair · Study Chair

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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