Nuclear cardiology tools and recent radiotracers offer emerging strategies for the early detection of cancer-treatment-related cardiotoxicity and cardiovascular risk stratification.
Nuclear cardiology and novel radiotracers play an expanding role in the early detection and monitoring of cancer-treatment-related cardiotoxicity.
Cancer and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) often share common risk factors, and patients with CVD who develop cancer are at high risk of experiencing major adverse cardiovascular events. Additionally, cancer treatment can induce short- and long-term adverse cardiovascular events. Given the improvement in oncological patients' prognosis, the burden in this vulnerable population is slowly shifting towards increased cardiovascular mortality. Consequently, the field of cardio-oncology is steadily expanding, prompting the need for new markers to stratify and monitor the cardiovascular risk in oncological patients before, during, and after the completion of treatment. Advanced non-invasive cardiac imaging has raised great interest in the early detection of CVD and cardiotoxicity in oncological patients. Nuclear medicine has long been a pivotal exam to robustly assess and monitor the cardiac function of patients undergoing potentially cardiotoxic chemotherapies. In addition, recent radiotracers have shown great interest in the early detection of cancer-treatment-related cardiotoxicity. In this review, we summarize the current and emerging nuclear cardiology tools that can help identify cardiotoxicity and assess the cardiovascular risk in patients undergoing cancer treatments and discuss the specific role of nuclear cardiology alongside other non-invasive imaging techniques.
Mikaïl et al. (Wed,) conducted a review in Cancer-treatment-related cardiotoxicity. Nuclear cardiology tools was evaluated. Nuclear cardiology tools and recent radiotracers offer emerging strategies for the early detection of cancer-treatment-related cardiotoxicity and cardiovascular risk stratification.