9.16.2004

Health In Brief: Chemotherapy agents could damage the heart

Health In Brief: Chemotherapy agents could damage the heart

What they did: The scientists reviewed 29 anticancer drugs for cardiac toxicity, both by scouring the existing literature on the subject and reviewing their own clinical experience at M.D. Anderson.
[Cancer - Topix.net]
Yeh, E.T. et al. "Cardiovascular Complications of Cancer Therapy." Circulation. June 29, 2004, Vol. 109, No. 25, pp. 3122–31.

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