Key result
Cancer therapies, including anthracyclines and novel agents, can cause significant cardiovascular complications that require early detection and management by onco-cardiologists.
Why the study?
As cancer treatments improve and the number of cancer survivors rises, cardiovascular complications have emerged as a significant clinical challenge.
This review highlights the growing importance of onco-cardiology, summarizing the latest findings on the cardiotoxicity of both traditional and novel cancer therapies, and emphasizing early detection and management.
Supports onco-cardiologist involvement for cardiotoxicity monitoring; leaves open optimal protocols pending prospective trials.
The prognosis has improved remarkably in recent years with the development of cancer treatment. With the increase in the number of cancer survivors, complications of cardiovascular disease have become a problem. Therefore, the field of onco-cardiology has been attracting attention. The field of onco-cardiology covers a wide range of areas. In the past, cardiac dysfunction caused by cardiotoxic drug therapies such as doxorubicin (Adriamycin) was the most common cause of cardiac dysfunction, but nowadays, cardiovascular complications caused by aging cancer survivors, atherosclerotic disease in cardiovascular risk carriers, thromboembolism, and new drugs (e.g., myocarditis caused by immune checkpoint inhibitors and hypertension caused by angiogenesis) are becoming more common. In this review, we summarize the latest findings of cardiotoxicity of cancer therapy, appropriate treatment and prevention, and cardiovascular complications of novel chemotherapy, which will increase in demand in the near future.
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Kubota et al. (2021) conducted a review in Cancer treatment-related cardiotoxicity. Cancer therapies was evaluated. Cancer therapies, including anthracyclines and novel agents, can cause significant cardiovascular complications that require early detection and management by onco-cardiologists.
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