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Thanks to more and more effective antineoplastic treatments (target therapies and immunotherapy) and the advances in early diagnosis of tumors, the life expectancy of patients suffering from cancer has significantly increased in the last 5 years [1, 2]. The increase in survival has created a population of patients “long survivors” with chronic cancer disease who are more exposed to develop complications of antineoplastic treatments [3].
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Russo, A., Novo, G., Lancellotti, P., Pinto, F.J., Giordano, A. (2019). Introduction. In: Russo, A., Novo, G., Lancellotti, P., Giordano, A., Pinto, F. (eds) Cardiovascular Complications in Cancer Therapy. Current Clinical Pathology. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93402-0_1
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