Increased Risk of Heart Diseases in Breast Cancer Survivors

Highlights There is an increased risk of heart failures/diseases in breast cancer survivors, years after the initial diagnosis and treatment of their cancer (long term chemotherapy side effect). Breast cancer patients need to be educated on the negative impacts that...

Can your chemotherapy cause another cancer?

Highlights A National Cancer Institute analysis of over 700,000 patients with solid cancer tumors between the ages of 20 and 84 who initially underwent chemotherapy from 2000-2013 and survived for at least 1 year after diagnosis, found that the risk of developing a...