by Carolyn Thomas   ♥   @HeartSisters

It seems a cruel irony: the very thing that may have saved your life after a frightening cancer diagnosis is the same thing that can ultimately endanger your heart. I first heard of the known link between cancer treatments and later heart disease when I was a text editor of the palliative care textbook called Medical Care of the Dying.¹  I learned about patients with end-stage heart disease caused by their cancer treatments – sometimes decades earlier.  .   .
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