For the Recorder
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
The American Heart Association recently issued what it has called its first “scientific” statement on cardiovascular disease and breast cancer.
The statement, “Cardiovascular Disease and Breast Cancer: Where These Entities Intersect,” is actually a 23-page, fairly detailed document on how some breast cancer treatments can increase a woman’s risk for cardiovascular disease, how that disease as a pre-existing condition might impact breast cancer treatment and how the two diseases share some risk factors.
It is directed at those who provide a breast cancer survivor’s medical treatment as well as at survivors themselves. Its point for survivors is not to avoid treatment, but to be aware of the cardiovascular disease risks involved.
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