Abstract
Cancer and cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure (HF), are the main causes of death in Western countries. Several anticancer drugs and radiotherapy have adverse effects on the cardiovascular system, promoting left ventricular dysfunction and ultimately HF. Nonetheless, the relationship between cancer and HF is likely not unidirectional. Indeed, cancer and HF share common risk factors, and both have a bidirectional relationship with systemic inflammation, metabolic disturbances, and neurohormonal and immune activation. Few studies have assessed the impact of untreated cancer on the heart. The presence of an active cancer has been associated with elevated cardiac biomarkers, an initial impairment of left ventricular structure and function, autonomic dysfunction, and reduced exercise tolerance. In turn, these conditions might increase the risk of cardiac damage from chemotherapy and radiotherapy. HF drugs such as beta-blockers or inhibitors of the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system might exert a protective effect on the heart even before the start of cancer therapies. In this review, we recapitulate the evidence of cardiac involvement in cancer patients naïve from chemotherapy and radiotherapy and no history of cardiac disease. We also focus on the perspectives for an early diagnosis and treatment to prevent the progression to cardiac dysfunction and clinical HF, and the potential benefits of cardioactive drugs on cancer progression.
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Introduction
Recent advances in cancer therapies have considerably improved the survival rates of many cancers [1], but several anticancer drugs and radiotherapy regimens have detrimental effects on the heart, leading to pericardial and myocardial disease, left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, and ultimately heart failure (HF) [2]. In this perspective, there is a growing interest in the bidirectional relationship between cancer and HF, beyond the possible effects of cancer therapies. Cancer per se might promote HF development, whereas HF could act as a pro-oncogenic condition [3]. Cancer and HF share several risk factors, such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and smoking [4,5,6], and the systemic metabolic alterations could link one disease to the other [7, 8]. While there is evidence that patients with HF have a higher incidence of cancer compared to the general population [9], data on the association between cancer alone (i.e., naïve to therapies) and HF are very limited. Until now, research mainly focused on the long-term risk of cardiovascular disease in cancer survivors [10,11,12].
In this review, we discuss the main evidence of subclinical cardiac damage in treatment-naïve cancer patients, and recapitulate the possible mechanisms leading to HF, including inflammation, oxidative stress, and autonomic impairment. We also discuss the potential roles of drug therapies for the prevention of cancer-related cardiotoxicity, and the potential benefits of cardioactive drugs on cancer progression.
Possible mechanisms leading to HF in cancer patients
Systemic inflammation and oxidative stress, neurohormonal activation, autonomic dysfunction, clonal haematopoiesis, and metabolic derangements are the main proposed mechanisms whereby cancer may promote cardiac dysfunction, and, ultimately, HF (Fig. 1).
Pathophysiological interplay heart-cancer disease in patients naïve to chemotherapy. Cancer and heart have a bidirectional relationship (cancer to heart; heart to cancer). Besides a direct effect mediated by chemo (and radio) therapy, cancer can impact on heart structure and function in several different pathways: inflammation, oxidative stress, metabolic (oncometabolites), and directly affecting sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation
Several conditions have detrimental effects on the heart and may lead to HF. Systemic amyloidoses are a group of diseases characterized by the deposition of amyloid, an aggregate of misfolded proteins, in one or more organs. The two most common forms of cardiac amyloidosis are due transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) and light-chain amyloidosis (AL), derived from abnormal light chains produced by plasma cell malignancies [13]. Pheochromocytomas, rare catecholamine-secreting tumours of the adrenal glands, often cause a severe cardiotoxicity mediated by β adrenergic receptor stimulation, which manifests in several forms, from Takotsubo to dilated cardiomyopathy [14, 15]. Carcinoid heart disease is the cardiac involvement of serotonin-producing neuroendocrine tumours (NETs), due to fibrotic endocardial plaques with associated valve dysfunction often leading to right-sided HF [16]. In acromegaly, the excess of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-I) induces a specific cardiomyopathy whose most common feature is concentric hypertrophy, usually associated with diastolic dysfunction and eventual impairment of systolic function and HF [17].
Inflammation and oxidative stress
Most malignancies elicit an inflammatory response through the release of proinflammatory cytokines and acute phase proteins that create a protumorigenic microenvironment, which in turn contributes to cancer invasiveness [18,19,20,21,22,23]. Inflammation also promotes microvascular endothelial dysfunction and HF development (particularly HF with preserved ejection fraction) in experimental models, and proinflammatory cytokines (such as tumour necrosis factor-alpha [TNFα], interleukin-1β and -6) may reduce contractility and promote adverse LV remodelling [3, 24, 25].
Oxidative stress, due for example to reactive oxygen species (ROS), works synergistically with inflammation to promote both cancer and HF [26]. Sustained exposure to ROS can cause DNA damage and further support cancer promotion and progression [27,28,29]. Cancer itself can foster oxidative stress, mainly through the effect of oncogenes (e.g., Myc or Ras) affecting cellular metabolism, redox homeostasis, and DNA replication [30]. Similarly, mitochondrial dysfunction is a prominent feature of HF, resulting in increased cellular levels of ROS and reactive nitrogen species (RNS), altered calcium handling, mitochondrial DNA replication, excitation–contraction coupling, promotion of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and apoptosis, and myocardial fibrosis [31, 32].
Renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system activation
Increased rennin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) activity has been demonstrated in various tumour types, including kidney, prostate, bladder, stomach, cervix, brain, pancreas, colon, lung, liver, skin, and haematopoietic cancers [33, 34]. Angiotensin receptor-1 (ATR1) signalling appears to be the major component of RAAS involved in tumour growth (by inducing angiogenesis) and tumour proliferation (by promoting vascular or epidermal growth factor receptor expression) [33, 35]. ATR1 stimulates inflammation, fibrosis, angiogenesis, tumour invasion and metastasis, while ATR2 antagonize these effects [33, 35]. Angiotensin II can also promote cell growth and proliferation through the transforming growth factor-beta [36], tyrosine kinase [37], and activating mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathways [38]. Furthermore, a subpopulation of cancer cells known as cancer stem cells (CSCs) has been identified in many types of cancers [39]. These cells express components of the RAAS, supporting the intriguing hypothesis of paracrine mechanisms fostering carcinogenesis via stem cells [40].
The RAAS has a well-established pathogenetic role in HF [41, 42], promoting myocardial hypertrophy and fibrosis and adverse LV remodelling. Thus, enhanced RAAS activity in cancer patients might promote HF development.
Cardiac autonomic dysfunction
The possible occurrence of autonomic dysfunction in cancer is increasingly acknowledged. It is particularly prevalent among patients with advanced cancer and in those undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but studies suggest an increased prevalence among cancer patients compared to cancer-free individuals. Autonomic dysfunction could be related to preexisting neuropathy, paraneoplastic effects, tumour invasion or compression of autonomic nerves, cancer-related deconditioning, or autoimmune disorders [43,44,45]. Sustained activation of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) may contribute to cancer initiation [46] and progression [47]. It also influences the tumour microenvironment by promoting the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines [48, 49] and suppressing the immune response [50, 51]. SNS stimulation can also induce cancer cells to escape anoikis, a form of cell death occurring when cells detach from the extracellular matrix [52, 53]. High levels of tissue catecholamines can further promote tumour invasiveness by upregulating matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) [54, 55], thus increasing vascularisation and matrix degradation, which are the first steps toward metastatic dissemination [24, 56]. Finally, adrenergic stimulation recruits activated macrophages to the tumour parenchyma and induces a prometastatic gene expression signature [57]. These effects are largely mediated by beta-adrenergic receptors, particularly beta-2 adrenoreceptors, and may then be counteracted by beta-blockers [58]. Several preclinical studies show that adrenergic activation modulates apoptosis, promotes angiogenesis and other cancer hallmarks, which provide a rationale for the use of beta-blockers as antineoplastic and cardioprotective agents, and even as adjuvants to cancer chemotherapy [59, 60].
As in the case of RAAS activation, autonomic dysfunction due to cancer might promote the progression to HF. Increased sympathetic outflow and vagal withdrawal is a hallmark of HF [61], particularly HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), but also mid/range and HFpEF [62]. These changes are initially compensatory, but lead over time to maladaptive ventricular remodelling, hypertrophy, myocardial fibrosis, myocyte cell death, and further deterioration of cardiac function [63].
Clonal haematopoiesis
Clonal haematopoiesis (CH) is a proliferation of haematopoietic stem cells carrying somatic mutations [64]. These mutations occur predominantly in genes encoding for key epigenetic regulators of haematopoiesis [65, 66]. Some of these somatic mutations in the haematopoietic stem cells are linked to an increased risk of coronary artery disease [66, 67]. Other somatic mutations are associated with a poor prognosis in HF patients [68], with their modulation preventing the worsening of cardiac dysfunction in preclinical mouse models [69]. Accordingly, patients with CH have a higher risk of cancer, HF, and death than controls without mutations [70].
Oncometabolic pathways
Oncometabolites are molecules that accumulate in cancer cells, often through mutations of genes encoding the corresponding enzymes, which drive the activation of oncogenic pathways [71]. A preclinical study in rodents showed that an increased production of the oncometabolite D-2-hydroxyglutarate by mutant leukemic cells may reduce cardiac contractility by impairing oxidative decarboxylation of α-ketoglutarate and increasing ATP citrate lyase activity [8]. Similarly, results from genetically engineered and nude mice carrying tumours expressing mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase-2 (IDH2) suggest that D-2-hydroxyglutarate promote the development of cardiomyopathy [72].
An energy shift from mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation to aerobic glycolysis is often observed in cancer cells. This so-called Warburg effect has been extensively studied in cancer, but there is growing evidence of its involvement even in non-tumour diseases, including HF [73, 74]. A shift from the adult to the foetal isoforms of pyruvate kinase (PKM1 to PKM2) is a hallmark of the Warburg effect, with the latter causing accumulation of intermediates of the glycolytic pathway [75]. A high PKM2 expression has been found not only in cancer cells, but also in the failing hearts of patients with advanced HF, and is partially reversible through mechanical unloading [76].
Evidence of cardiac disease in cancer patients
Characterizing the effects of cancer on the heart requires the assessment of circulating biomarkers, imaging techniques, evaluation of functional capacity and autonomic function (Table 1).
Biomarkers
Laboratory markers can be used to assess a variety of pathophysiological processes in HF, such as fibrosis, inflammation, myocardial injury, and remodelling [77]. There is extensive literature on the role of cardiac biomarkers (particularly natriuretic peptides and high-sensitivity troponins [hs-Tn]) for the early detection of cardiotoxicity from cancer therapies [78,79,80]. Much less is known about circulating levels and prognostic value of biomarkers before the start of chemotherapy.
Recent studies reported elevated levels of several biomarkers of myocardial injury and alterations of immunity and inflammatory pathways in treatment-naïve cancer patients [81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88]. A retrospective study in 145 patients with haematologic and solid organ malignancies not on treatment investigated the levels of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP). There was evidence of fluid overload in 80% of patients with elevated NT-proBNP. The degree of NT-proBNP elevation was similar between patients with and without HF or volume overload and those with solid vs haematologic malignancies [87]. The role of high-sensitivity troponin (hs-Tn) levels to detect subclinical myocardial damage beyond conventional cardiovascular risk factors has been confirmed in a recent study, including 3512 individuals free from cardiovascular disease [89]. Cancer survivors (19% of the whole population) had significantly higher odds of elevated hs-TnT than patients without prior cancer (odds ratio [OR] 1.26; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.03–1.53). Furthermore, a significant increase of hs-TnI in 25 haematologic patients naïve from anthracycline therapy has been reported [90]. Overall, despite an association between increased NT-proBNP or hs-Tn, there is limited evidence of a link between this increase and alterations of cardiac structure or function in treatment-naïve cancer patients [91].
A prognostic role of biomarkers in this setting has also been proposed. In a study on 555 patients with a primary diagnosis of cancer and no prior therapies, several biomarkers (including NT-proBNP, hs-TnT, mid-regional proatrial natriuretic peptide, proadrenomedullin, copeptin, and interleukin 6) were shown to increase with tumour progression. All biomarkers predicted mortality regardless of age, gender, tumour entity and stage, and cardiac comorbidities [92]. Recently, hs-TnT before the start of treatment was reported to predict a composite endpoint of cardiovascular death, stroke or transient ischemic attack, pulmonary embolism and new-onset HF, as well as the progression of cardiac involvement at 3 months, in patients on immune checkpoint inhibitors, with 14 ng/L as the best cutoff [88].
In summary, patients with cancer can display an increase in cardiac biomarkers before the start of cancer therapies, and such increase might predict an increased risk of adverse outcome. However, further studies are needed to assess the prognostic role of other cardiac biomarkers, such as soluble suppression of tumorigenicity-2, galectin-3, or fibroblast growth factor-23.
Imaging findings
Echocardiography is the first-line imaging technique to assess cardiac structure and function. Although LV ejection fraction (LVEF) is the most commonly used parameter to detect cardiotoxic damage [79], speckle tracking imaging has emerged as a more sensitive marker of subclinical myocardial dysfunction [79, 93,94,95], with prognostic relevance in terms of prediction of manifest LV dysfunction [96,97,98,99].
Cramer et al. reported increased end-systolic volumes but similar diastolic function parameters in patients with evidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) before chemotherapy [91] compared with controls, but their analysis did not include advanced echocardiographic imaging. A retrospective study on 122 chemotherapy and radiotherapy-naive patients with cancer and 45 controls with similar cardiovascular risk profile showed that cancer, even before the initiation of therapy, was associated with reduced longitudinal (OR 9.0; 95% CI, 2.20–23.50; p < 0.001), circumferential (OR 7.1; 95% CI, 3.80–20.40; p < 0.001), and radial strain (OR 7.2; 95% CI, 3.41–25.10; p < 0.001) regardless of age, sex, body mass index, diabetes, and hypertension [100]. Similarly, cancer was independently associated with reduced right ventricle (RV) global longitudinal strain (OR 3.79; 95% CI, 2.18–10.92; p < 0.001), as well as with decreased free wall RV longitudinal strain (OR 5.73; 95% CI, 3.17–9.85; p < 0.001) [101].
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) allows a characterisation of myocardial tissue changes such as intracellular and interstitial oedema and fibrosis, which may represent early markers of myocardial injury [102]. T1- and T2-weighted imaging and T2 and T1 mapping sequences can help identify intracellular and interstitial oedema [103, 104]. CMR is then a valuable tool for early detection of cardiotoxicity by CMR [105,106,107]. There is currently no evidence of its prognostic value in chemotherapy and radiotherapy-naïve patients.
Exercise capacity
Several studies have reported a significant reduction of functional capacity in patients on chemotherapy or cancer survivors [108,109,110]. The functional implications of cardiorespiratory performance in untreated cancer patients, assessed through cardiopulmonary exercise testing, are less clear. A pilot study evaluated 248 patients with breast cancer before, during, and after adjuvant therapy for the non-metastatic disease, or during therapy for metastatic disease. Patients showed a marked reduction in peak oxygen consumption (VO2), especially those with metastatic disease, but also those before therapy, compared to patients after adjuvant therapy and age-matched sedentary healthy women. Peak VO2 was an independent predictor of survival, with an adjusted hazard ratio (HR) for death of 0.59 for a VO2 peak ≥ 15.4 mL/kg/min (95% CI, 0.29–1.19; p = 0.14) [111].
Overall, there is limited evidence of cardiac functional impairment of untreated cancer patients, and findings are basically limited to breast cancer patients.
Autonomic function
Resting heart rate has a strong association with cancer mortality [112,113,114]. In a study on 548 treatment-naïve cancer patients, higher resting heart rate was associated with higher NT-proBNP and hs-TnT, and predicted all-cause mortality over a median of 25 months after adjustment for age, gender, tumour type and stage, cardiac status, and haemoglobin (HR for each 5 beats per minute increase 1.10; 95% CI, 1.04–1.16; p < 0.001). The strongest associations with mortality were observed in lung and gastrointestinal cancer (p = 0.007 and p < 0.001, respectively) [115].
Assessment of heart rate variability (HRV), evaluated through ECG Holter monitoring, allows a more comprehensive evaluation of autonomic function. Reduced HRV denotes autonomic dysfunction with sympathetic activation and vagal withdrawal and portends a worse prognosis in several conditions, from cardiovascular to neurodegenerative diseases [116,117,118]. HRV is reduced in several cancer types [119], and decreased with advanced clinical stage and tumour progression (both p < 0.001) in patients with gastric cancer [120]. Cramer et al. prospectively studied 50 patients with CRC, 51 patients with HF, and 51 control subjects. Most metrics of HRV were significantly reduced in CRC patients and HF patients compared with control subjects (all p < 0.05).
In summary, cancer patients have a higher heart rate and a reduced HRV, with clinical and prognostic implications.
Therapeutic perspectives
Several therapies with antifibrotic and antiremodelling effect (mainly RAAS antagonists), autonomic modulation (beta-blockers), and antiinflammatory or antioxidant actions [78, 80] have shown to prevent or relieve chemotherapy cardiotoxicity [121]. Exercise training seems also protective [110, 122, 123], for example reducing NT-proBNP increase and systolic dysfunction in breast cancer patient receiving doxorubicin [124] (Table 2).
Beta-blockers
Patients on beta-blockers before cancer diagnosis tend to show a reduced disease progression and mortality [125,126,127,128]. Indeed, beta-blockers limit (mainly via beta-2-adrenergic receptors) inflammation and metastasis formation [59, 129]. Beta-blockers may then represent an adjuvant therapy strategy with a pleiotropic impact on the primary tumour, its microenvironment, and metastasis formation [128,129,130].
Powe et al. hypothesised a better outcome for breast cancer patients receiving a beta-blocker for hypertension. They evaluated 3 patient subgroups of 466 consecutive female patients (43 treated with beta-blockers, 49 with other antihypertensives, and 374 non-hypertensive control subgroup) with resectable breast cancer and follow-up of > 10 years. The endpoints were breast cancer survival, disease-free survival, formation of distant metastases, and local tumour recurrence. Patients on beta-blockers showed a significant reduction in metastasis development (p = 0.026), tumour recurrence (p = 0.001), and longer disease-free survival (p = 0.01). Furthermore, the risk of metastasis formation and breast cancer mortality at 10 years were reduced by 57% and 71%, respectively [125].
A recent meta-analysis of 12 studies and more than 20,000 patients reported that beta-blocker therapy is associated with improved overall survival (HR 0.79; 95% CI, 0.67–0.93; p = 0.004) and disease-free survival (HR 0.69; 95% CI, 0.53–0.91; p = 0.009). The effect size was greater, albeit not significantly different, in patients with low-stage cancer or cancer treated primarily with surgery [131].
RAAS inhibitors
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEi) therapy was originally found to be independently associated with a decreased risk for cancer occurrence in a population-based study including hypertensive patients (HR 0.66; 95% CI, 0.63–0.68; p < 0.001) [132]. Studies on larger populations reported a lower cumulative incidence of cancer for angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) users (HR 0.58, 95% CI 0.55–0.62; p 0.001) [133, 134]. RAAS blockade has also been associated with better survival in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma [135]. Despite this, several meta-analyses have yielded conflicting results regarding the association between ARB therapy and the risk of new diagnosis of cancer [136,137,138].
A few studies investigated the effect of beta blockers and RAAS inhibitors. In the LACE Study cohort [women with early-stage breast cancer from the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Cancer Registry], including 1779 women (with 292 cancer recurrences, 174 cancer deaths, and 323 total deaths), 23% of patients were treated with either a beta-blocker and/or ACEi. These drugs were associated with older age, postmenopausal status, tamoxifen therapy, higher body mass index, hypertension, and diabetes. ACEi therapy was surprisingly associated with breast cancer recurrence (HR 1.56; 95% CI, 1.02–2.39; p = 0.04), but not cause-specific mortality or overall mortality. On the contrary, beta-blocker therapy was associated with a lower hazard of recurrence and cause-specific mortality (HR 0.86; 95% CI, 0.57–1.32; p = 0.49). However, there was no evidence of dose response with either medication. For recurrence and cause-specific mortality, therapy with a beta-blocker and an ACEi was associated with a lower HR for the outcome (HR 1.14 and 1.04, for the respective outcome) than when ACEi alone was used (HR 1.56 and 1.27, respectively) [139].
A further retrospective study including a large population of 18,733 women diagnosed with non-metastatic breast cancer between 1996 and 2003 showed that users of any beta-blocker had a lower recurrence hazard in unadjusted models (HR 0.91; 95% CI, 0.81–1.0) and a slightly higher recurrence hazard in adjusted models (adjusted HR 1.3; 95% CI, 1.1–1.5), with similar associations for exposures defined by receptor selectivity and solubility. Metoprolol and sotalol were associated with increased recurrence rates (adjusted HR: 1.5 metoprolol, 2.0 sotalol). ACEi were associated with a slightly increased recurrence hazard, whereas angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) were not associated with recurrence. The authors concluded that the study did not support the hypothesis that beta-blockers reduced the risk of breast cancer recurrence [140].
Retrospective cohort studies might have influenced these results, as there are no randomized controlled trials yet investigating this subject. Also, the studies used various beta blockers with different types of subjects in different tumour settings, leading to significant heterogeneity in the results.
Other drugs
Some other cardioactive drugs are currently under investigation: while treatment with diuretics does not seem to affect tumour incidence [141], the use of statins [142], aspirin [143], and metformin [144] seems to lead to a lower risk of death and tumour incidence.
Ongoing studies
Several ongoing studies are investigating the potential implementation of beta-blockers in this specific setting (notably propranolol and carvedilol) [7].
Although various studies have suggested that ACEi/ARB have antiproliferative effects and improve survival of many types of cancers, there are also reports of increased cancer risk: because of contradictory findings from meta-analyses, the exact relationship between RAAS blockade and development of cancer and cancer subtypes remains uncertain and more studies (longitudinal prospective cohort; randomized clinical trials) are needed to demonstrate the effects of RAAS blockade in cancer, and in this setting, large randomized controlled trials are mandatory.
Conclusions
Cancer itself might be considered as a condition at risk of HF and, as such, susceptible to cardioprotective therapies even before the introduction of chemotherapy. Such primary prevention strategies would allow to avoid further complications and better risk stratify cancer patients, but, on the other hand, they imply greater risk of side effects, closer monitoring, and higher cost (Fig. 2). Overall, there are promising results from primary prevention trials investigating the cardioprotective efficacy of neurohormonal therapies [145,146,147,148,149,150,151]. Breast cancer patients treated with neurohormonal therapies show higher LVEF and better LV strain [121]. However, these trials have highly heterogeneous designs. The small sample size, short follow-up durations, and single-centred design highlight the need for multicentre, adequately powered randomized controlled trials. Longer follow-up duration and clinically meaningful endpoints are also required [121, 152].
Potential cardiological clinical work-up in patients naïve to chemotherapy. Risk stratification in patients with cancer prior to chemotherapy remains pivotal. Several different methods could be employed. In the presence of preclinical alterations, a tighter cardiological work-up might be indicated
Therefore, patients candidate for chemotherapy should be considered at risk of developing HF (stage A), and subclinical HF (stage B) that should be actively searched, to Initiate early an appropriate treatment and improve patient outcome.
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Fabiani, I., Panichella, G., Aimo, A. et al. Subclinical cardiac damage in cancer patients before chemotherapy. Heart Fail Rev 27, 1091–1104 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10741-021-10151-4
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