A drug and a DNA variant increase heart disease risk in cancer survivors

Jun 14, 2022

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Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have identified a genetic variant associated with substantially increased risk of heart disease in survivors of childhood cancer treated with the chemotherapy doxorubicin.

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