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SUBMITTER: Jain D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5599271 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jain Diwakar D Ahmad Tauseef T Cairo Mitchel M Aronow Wilbert W
Annals of translational medicine 20170901 17
Cardiotoxicity is an important complication of several cancer therapeutic agents. Several well established and newer anticancer therapies such as anthracyclines, trastuzumab and other HER2 receptor blockers, antimetabolites, alkylating agents, tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), angiogenesis inhibitors, and checkpoint inhibitors are associated with significant cardiotoxicity. Cardiovascular imaging employing radionuclide imaging, echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging are helpful in earl ...[more]