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CANCER TREATMENT REVIEWS
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 429-447Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1053/ctrv.2000.0175
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chemotherapy; cardiotoxicity; vascular toxicity; long-term; side-effect
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As a consequence of-the successful use of chemotherapy in the treatment of curable neoplasms such as germ cell tumours and malignant lymphomas, and the increasing application of primary and adjuvant chemotherapy for various tumour types. the number of patients with a prolonged life expectancy after treatment is rising. Attention to long-term side-effects. including cardiovascular toxicity, is therefore of growing importance. In this review we evaluate the literature on long-term cardiovascular toxicity related to chemotherapy in adult patients. Two categories of patient with favourable life expectancy have been reviewed, namely patients cured of metastatic disease by chemotherapy and patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy. In the first, category. the literature on long-term cardiovascular morbidity in survivors of metastatic testicular cancer and lymphomas is discussed. while in the second category this is done for patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy for breast and colon cancer As well as the direct toxic effects of chemotherapy on the cardiovascular system. the indirect toxic effects such as chemotherapy-related metabolic changes that may cause cardiovascular morbidity are also discussed. (C) 2000 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.
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