New cancer diagnosis appeared associated with increased risk for cardiovascular death, as well as incident heart failure, stroke or pulmonary embolism, according to a retrospective cohort study published in JACC: CardioOncology.
“This risk persisted to at least 7 years from cancer diagnosis and appeared most pronounced in patients with hematologic, gastrointestinal, genitourinary and thoracic malignancies,” D. Ian Paterson, MD, FRCPC, professor of medicine in the division of cardiology, director of the Edmonton Cardio-Oncology Program and director of academic and research cardiac