Clinical reviews: Our panel of GPs review recent research papers in their specialist areas that may influence the way you practise.

The article focuses on children who have survived cancer, particularly those treated with chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy, have a higher risk of adverse cardiac events later on, a pan-European study has found. Topics include the investigators has assessed the cumulative incidence of symptomatic cardiac ischaemia in childhood cancer survivors, and the patients diagnosed with cancer in childhood, between 1940-2009, from seven European countries including the Great Britain.