Some patients being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of cancer immunotherapy, develop a dangerous form of heart inflammation called myocarditis. Researchers have now uncovered the ...

New research suggests that a healthy microbiome before chemotherapy could help protect breast cancer patients against heart damage, or cardiotoxicity, as a result of cancer therapy. Subscribe to ...

In 2022, there were 18.1 million cancer survivors in the United States, according to cancer.gov. By 2032, there will be an estimated 22.5 million.

Breast Cancer Patients Have New Radiation Treatment Option that Visualizes the Heart & Addresses Co-Morbidities: Brainlab DIBH with ExacTrac Dynamic®.

Cancer therapies such as chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy can each cause unique and serious damage to the heart. As cancer treatments advance and more patients survive the disease ...

While cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation are critical to treating cancers, research shows that some of these treatments may impair heart function or cause long-term heart damage.

CHICAGO — Treatment with the heart failure medication sacubitril/valsartan was associated with a lower risk for chemotherapy-related heart damage among high-risk patients with cancer, according ...

“Also, there are a large amount of patients who have a cardiomyopathy or heart failure at the time of their cancer diagnosis.” It’s become clear that heart failure specialists are going to “have to ...

Ms. Silverstein is the author of “Sick Girl” and “My Glory Was I Had Such Friends.” Today, I will explain to my healthy transplanted heart why, in what may be a matter of days or weeks at ...