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1 year ago
In this video we invited Dr Anne Blaes, Associate Professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Minnesota, to summarise the topic of breast cancer treatment related cardiotoxicity. Dr Blaes is an active medical oncologist with a special interest in the late effects of cancer therapy.
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1. What are the main cancer treatments that cause this problem?
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3 years ago
Survival rates among patients diagnosed with cancer have improved dramatically over the past few decades. In 2016, there were an estimated 16 million cancer survivors in the United States, a number expected to increase to 20 million over the subsequent decade.1 One-third of these patients will survive at least 5 years after their initial cancer diagnosis, largely due to cancer therapies that are…
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3 years ago
During the past 25 years, takotsubo syndrome (TS) has emerged as an important form of acute myocardial injury characterized by a distinctive regional left ventricular (LV) contraction abnormality, often with marked reduction of the LV ejection fraction, and typically completely reversible. At presentation, TS is often indistinguishable from acute coronary syndrome, yet its occurrence is…
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