Heart group warns of cardiovascular risks after treatment for breast cancer
The American Heart Association warns that breast cancer survivors treated with common chemotherapies are at increased risk for heart disease.
Cardiologists are not telling women with breast cancer to decline treatment — far from it. But in its first-ever statement on the most common female cancer, the American Heart Association warned on Thursday that breast cancer survivors, especially those treated with common chemotherapies, are at increased risk for heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases. And it called on cancer doctors to weigh the benefits of those treatments against the heart risks they pose.
It has been known for years that some breast cancer drugs (including some also used
