Abstract
Cardiovascular disease represents a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer patients and cancer survivors. This chapter covers the cardiovascular toxicities as a result of drugs used in the treatment of cancer. Complications seen with such treatment regimens can include cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, myocardial infarction, thromboembolism, and hypertension. We specifically review the incidence of cardiotoxicities associated with each drug, as well as the patient risk factors, manifestation of disease, and where applicable insights into the mechanism of cardiovascular damage. We also discuss specific strategies for reducing the incidence and severity of cardiovascular complications associated with cancer therapeutics. In addition, we discuss the opportunity for discovery afforded by cardiovascular complications that arise in patients developing cardiotoxicities associated with novel, molecularly targeted cancer therapeutics. Studying the mechanisms of such toxicities may have the dual benefit of devising strategies to eliminate cardiovascular disease as a barrier to effective therapy and also may provide insights into molecular pathways that are critical in the regulation of the human cardiovascular system whose identities were previously unappreciated.
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Khakoo, A.Y., Kwartler, C.S. (2011). Cardiovascular Complications of Cancer Therapeutics. In: Azoulay, E. (eds) Pulmonary Involvement in Patients with Hematological Malignancies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15742-4_9
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