Cardiac Toxicity in Breast Cancer Survivors: Review of Potential Cardiac Problems
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Cardiac toxicity in breast cancer survivors: review of potential cardiac problems.
As breast cancer survival is increased by the diagnosis of earlier-stage disease and treatments improve, the side effects of cancer treatments, such as cardiotoxicity, remain clinically important. Although physicians have known for 30 years that anthracyclines cause acute and chronic cardiotoxicity, the cardiotoxic effects of radiation therapy, hormonal therapy (including tamoxifen and the arom...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Cancer Research
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1078-0432,1557-3265
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-07-1033