Search Tag: Chemotherapy

2024 30 Sep

A study using clinical trial data has identified a higher risk of stroke, heart attack, and hospitalisations for heart failure among older cancer survivors. Published in Cancer, the analysis also linked chemotherapy to increased rates of these cardiovascular conditions.   While advancements in cancer treatments have reduced mortality rates over...Read more

2020 27 May

There is sufficient clinical evidence to show that the use of certain chemotherapeutic drugs is associated with cardiac toxicity. In many cases, the impairment in cardiac dysfunction caused by these drugs is lifelong and can severely impair the quality of life of patients. While many drugs continue to be approved to treat malignancies, the cardiac...Read more

2014 05 Dec

Echocardiography detects early deterioration of heart function allowing prevention medication to be given Austrian researchers have shown that a new technique which wraps chemotherapy drugs in a fatty cover (called a liposome) reduces heart damage, in a study presented today at EuroEcho-Imaging 2014 by Professor Jutta Bergler-Klein and Professor Mariann...Read more