Cardiac Dysfunction in Childhood Cancer Survivors
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Conditions studied: Cardiac Dysfunction, Cardiovascular Diseases, Childhood Cancer
In brief
This multicenter, prospective cohort study evaluates early cardiac dysfunction in adult survivors of childhood cancer. The hypothesis of this study is that cardiac dysfunction can be detected earlier when using speckle tracking echocardiography as novel echocardiographic technique compared to conventional echocardiography.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03790943
- Run by
- University of Bern
- People needed
- 500
- Starts
- 2018-02-13
- Expected to finish
- 2029-04-23
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-05-29
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Registered in the ChCR
- Formerly treated at the Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology of one of five participating centers
- Treated with any chemotherapy and/or chest radiation
- Survived ≥ 5 years since most recent cancer diagnosis (primary cancer, relapse(s), secondary cancer) at time of examination
- Diagnosed at age ≤ 20 years
- ≥ 18 years of age at time of study participation
- Resident in Switzerland
- Written informed consent
You may not qualify if…
- Study participants will be excluded if they do not meet the above mentioned inclusion criteria or refuse to participate in the study.
Where it is running
- Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel — Basel, Canton of Basel-City, Switzerland (enrolling)
- Department of Cardiology, Inselspital Bern — Bern, Switzerland (enrolling)
- Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals of Geneva — Geneva, Switzerland (enrolling)
- Department of Cardiology, Lucerne Cantonal Hospital — Lucerne, Switzerland (enrolling)
- Department of Cardiology, Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen — Sankt Gallen, Switzerland (enrolling)
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern — Bern, Canton of Bern, Switzerland
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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