Cancer patients have a higher risk of dying from heart disease and stroke with 10% of all cancer patients dying from cardiovascular problems, not cancer, according to a new study published in the European Heart Journal.
Cancer patients are at higher risk of dying from heart disease and stroke than the general population, a new study found.
As the number of cancer survivors increases, so will the rate of cardiovascular deaths, the researchers said.Cancer patients have a higher risk of dying from heart disease and stroke with 10% of all cancer patients dying from cardiovascular problems, not cancer, according to aFor some cancers, including breast, prostate, endometrial and thyroid cancer, the risk is even higher.
"We've known that cardiovascular disease deaths are an important competing cause of death, but we didn't know exactly how much and we didn't know for how many cancers," said Dr. Nicholas Zaorsky, an author of the study and radiation oncologist at Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Cancer Institute. "We saw at least five or six different cancers where cardiovascular disease deaths have actually surpassed the deaths from the cancer that the patients have.
Cancer patients with who were more likely to die from their cancer than from cardiovascular diseases had the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat cancers, like lung, liver and brain cancer.
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