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.

Sometimes additional medications for heart patients with cancer are prescribed, and in every case, the patient’s cardiac health is carefully watched.

After finishing months of chemotherapy and being declared a survivor, Linda Newton was back in the hospital, sick with congestive heart failure.

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A widely used diabetes medication could significantly boost recovery for cancer patients by reducing the risk of heart failure, according to a new study.

Organ transplantation is mired in stagnant science and antiquated, imprecise medicine that fails patients and organ donors.

There were sleepless nights, buckets of tears, and an aching pit in my stomach. Getting a cancer diagnosis is terrifying. It is an emotional roller coaster only those who have been through it truly ...

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 ...

Specific types of immune cells unleashed by cancer immunotherapy appear to cause myocarditis, an inflammatory condition that can weaken the heart, researchers report.

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