Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Fatal heart disease among cancer patients

  • Kelsey C. Stoltzfus,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Kathleen Sturgeon,
  • Lawrence I. Sinoway,
  • Daniel M. Trifiletti,
  • Vernon M. Chinchilli,
  • Nicholas G. Zaorsky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15639-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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As the overlap between heart disease and cancer patients increases as cancer-specific mortality is decreasing, identifying cancer patients who are at an increased risk of death from heart disease is important. Here the authors report on risk of death from heart diseases among more than 7.5 million cancer patients.