Does a diagnosis of cancer increase the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality compared to the general US population?
Cancer patients have an elevated risk of cardiovascular mortality compared to the general population, highlighting the need for early cardio-oncology evaluation, especially in high-risk groups like endometrial cancer survivors.
The majority of deaths from CVD occur in patients diagnosed with breast, prostate, or bladder cancer. We observed that from the point of cancer diagnosis forward into survivorship cancer patients (all sites) are at elevated risk of dying from CVDs compared to the general US population. In endometrial cancer, the first year after diagnosis poses a very high risk of dying from CVDs, supporting early involvement of cardiologists in such patients.
Sturgeon et al. (2019) studied this question.