CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY AND MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AFTER RADIATION THERAPY FOR LEFT VERSUS RIGHT SIDED BREAST CANCER: A META-ANALYSIS

Authors :: Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar
Marilia H. Santos
Paulo Marcelo Gehm Hoff
Carolina de Miranda Silva
Márcio Sommer Bittencourt
Milan Vecsey-Nagy
Roberto Kalil-Filho
Silvia Moulin Ribeiro Fonseca
Cristina Salvadori Bittar
Source :: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 67:1512
Publication Year :: 2016
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2016.
Abstract: Cardiovascular (CV) complications after breast cancer (BC) radiation therapy (RT) have been described in many studies. In the present study, we evaluated the incidence of CV mortality and myocardial infarction (MI) in patients who underwent RT for left vs. right BC. we search PubMed and EMBASE

Subjects :: medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
medicine.medical_treatment
medicine.disease
Radiation therapy
Breast cancer
Internal medicine
Meta-analysis
medicine
Cardiology
In patient
Radiology
Myocardial infarction
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Cardiovascular mortality

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