Erschienen in:
01.06.2011 | Editorial
Cardiovascular disease in cancer patients… only the tip of the iceberg?
verfasst von:
Prof. Dr. B. Maisch
Erschienen in:
Herz
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Ausgabe 4/2011
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Excerpt
The present issue of
Herz/
Cardiovascular Diseases focuses for the first time on the history of cardiac disease in cancer patients. This is not without reason: In the last 20 years cancer therapy has become increasingly more sophisticated and more successful on one hand, while also more dangerous to the heart on the other: “Cancer therapy can be hard on the heart” [
2]. This growing awareness of its potentially negative effects has led to a partnership beyond the borders of oncology and cardiology in many academic institutions and hospitals, not to mention internationally. Cardio-oncology today tries to bridge the gap between the growing need for more effective cancer therapies and cardiovascular co-morbidities related (or unrelated) to previous cancer treatment [
5]. …