In a tertiary care cancer hospital, secondary cardiac tumors were more common than primary tumors, with renal cell carcinoma and sarcoma being the most frequent etiologies, respectively, often presenting with dyspnea and right atrial involvement.
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Alerts clinicians to secondary tumors in cancer patients with dyspnea; extends limited case series but leaves generalizability open.
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