Heart shield: statins may keep cancer therapy on track

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Histologically and/or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of Stage I-III female breast cancer (including inflammatory breast cancer) * Scheduled to receive neoadjuvant/adjuvant HER2 targeted therapy * Between ≥18 years of age * Female patients of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test (serum or urine) prior to enrollment. Female patients must agree to use effective barrier contraception during the period of therapy * Baseline LVEF ≥ 50% * Prior cancers allowed if no evidence of disease in last 5 years * ECOG 0-2 * No prior history of treatment with HER2 targeted therapy or anthracyclines based chemotherapy * Adequate bone marrow function: I. ANC ≥ 1000/uL II. platelet count ≥ 100,000/uL III. hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL • Adequate hepatic function: I. Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 X ULN II. AST (SGOT) ≤ 5 X ULN III. ALT (SGPT) ≤ 5 X ULN * Adequate renal function, Creatinine \< 1.5x institutional ULN or calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 50 mL/min as estimated using the Cockcroft-Gault formula * Ability to understand the nature of this study protocol and give written informed consent * Willingness and ability to comply with scheduled visits, treatment plans, laboratory tests, and other study procedures Exclusion Criteria: * Participants with stage IV breast cancer * Participants currently taking statins * Uncontrolled hypertension (systolic blood pressure \>190 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure \>100 mm Hg) * No active liver disease * Current use of CYP 3A4 inhibitors * Any condition including the presence of laboratory abnormalities, which, in the opinion of the investigator places the subject at unacceptable risk if he/she were to participate in the study * Life expectancy \< 12 weeks * Pregnancy (positive pregnancy test) or lactation * Pre-existing sensory neuropathy \> grade one * Has significant cardiovascular disease, such as: LVEF \< 50% at baseline as assessed by ECHO (preferred) i) Class III or Class IV myocardial disease as described by the New York Heart Association ii) Recent history (within 6 months prior to enrollment) of myocardial infarction; or iii) Symptomatic arrhythmia at the time of randomization * Major surgery without complete recovery in the past four weeks prior to screening * Concurrent active infection * Participant with uncontrolled and/ or active infection with HIV, Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C * Participant who has a history of allergy or hypersensitivity to any of the study drugs * Participant with a history of interstitial lung disease, history of slowly progressive dyspnea and unproductive cough, sarcoidosis, silicosis, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypersensitivity pneumonitis * Any significant medical condition, laboratory abnormality, or psychiatric illness that would prevent the subject from participating in the study