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Newfound mechanism may explain why some cancer treatments boost risk of heart disease

Science Daily - Heart Disease

A cancer therapy that prompts the body's immune defenses against viruses and bacteria to attack tumors can make patients more vulnerable to heart attack and stroke.

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MMRI Publishes Breakthrough Study Detailing a Novel Approach to Minimize Damage After a Heart Attack

DAIC

The manuscript details how, when targeted specifically to the spleen, histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, chemical compounds that can be used to treat cancers and other diseases, have the potential to improve the healing response following a heart attack. MMRI scientists who contributed to the study include Jason R.

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Death By Firing Squad; Cancers in Millennials; Heart Attacks During COVID

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. South Carolina's highest court ruled the state can execute death row inmates by firing squad and the electric chair, in addition to lethal injection. (AP AP via ABC.

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Long-term Survivors of Childhood Cancer at Higher Risk of Death Following Heart Issues; Threshold for Treating Risk Factors Should be Lower

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The findings – published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology — could fuel advocacy for a paradigm shift in clinical heart health guidelines to address cardiovascular risk factors at an earlier age in childhood cancer survivors. “We

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Newfound mechanism may explain why some cancer treatments boost risk of heart disease

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

A cancer therapy that prompts the body's immune defenses against viruses and bacteria to attack tumors can make patients more vulnerable to heart attack and stroke.

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AI Measures Fat Around the Heart, a Key to Predicting Heart Attacks

DAIC

Given this dismal outcome, the prognosis of CLTI is worse than most cancers.3,4 Only about half of all diagnosed patients will be alive after six months, and only about half of the survivors will have intact limbs. 5 "It is especially devastating for those 10% of patients suffering from its most severe form, CLTI.

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Do cancer and cancer-related treatments increase cardiovascular disease risk in older cancer survivors?

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

A study based on clinical trial data found higher risks of stroke, heart attack, and hospital admission for heart failure in older cancer survivors. In the analysis published in the journal Cancer, chemotherapy was also linked to elevated rates of these conditions.

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