Tag: Dr. Aditya Bardia

When cancer treatment damages your heart

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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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Breast cancer survivors also at increased risk for developing heart disease

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by Carolyn Thomas  ♥ @HeartSisters

Although breast cancer survivors usually worry about their long-term risk of recurrence, most of these women should be just as concerned about their hearts, medical researchers reported at a San Francisco oncology conference.

The 10-year risk of a serious cardiovascular event was at least as high as the risk of breast cancer for 78% of women, Dr. Aditya Bardia of Johns Hopkins and colleagues reported at the ASCO Breast Cancer Symposium. 

See also:  When cancer treatment damages your heart

Dr. Rowan Chlebowski of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and chair of the session where the results were presented, said this link is a consistent message emerging in breast oncology:

”  Breast cancer patients need more attention to cardiovascular health regardless of their risk level.  We need more interaction with cardiologists.” Continue reading “Breast cancer survivors also at increased risk for developing heart disease” →