Survivors of Pediatric Cancers May Experience Lasting Impact on Heart, Metabolic Health Following Ra
Adult survivors of childhood abdominal and pelvic cancers who were treated with radiation therapy experience body composition...
Aug 24, 2020
Cancer’s toll on the heart decades down the road
New research explores how to lower the risk of heart disease in childhood cancer survivors. Read more: https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/...
Jun 3, 2020
Falling risk of heart disease among survivors of child cancer since the 1970s
"There has been a measurable decline in serious heart conditions among adult survivors of childhood cancer since the 1970s, finds a study...
Jan 16, 2020
Childhood cancer survivors at elevated risk of heart disease
"Survivors of childhood cancer have a higher risk of developing a range of heart disease due to cancer therapy, according to new research...
Aug 26, 2019
Which chemotherapy drugs have the highest cardiotoxicity risk in pediatric cancer?
A recent study published in JAMA Oncology analyzed data generated from over 28,000 childhood cancer survivors and compared the lifetime...
Apr 16, 2019
Mitoxantrone for childhood cancer more cardiotoxic than thought
In pediatric cancer patients, mitoxantrone appears to be at least ten times as cardiotoxic as doxorubicin therapy, while daunorubicin...
Feb 14, 2019
Daunorubicin reduces cardiomyopathy risk compared with doxorubicin in childhood cancer survivors
Daunorubicin appeared associated with a lower cardiomyopathy risk than doxorubicin among childhood cancer survivors, according to a...
Jan 31, 2019
Cardiotoxic childhood cancer treatment boosts heart failure risk at young age
Childhood cancer survivors who received cardiotoxic treatment are at high risk of heart failure at a young age, researchers say. Read...
Jan 10, 2019
Wireless device could detect heart dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors treated with chemo
A wireless device was comparable to cardiac MRI in accuracy when detecting heart dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors who were...
Jun 25, 2018
Childhood cancer survivors have higher risk of deadly heart disease in pregnancy
Girls who survive cancer have a higher risk of developing a deadly heart disease when pregnant later in life, according to a study...
May 28, 2018