Gregory Aune, MD, PhD, of UT Health San Antonio, served on a team that found different chemotherapy drugs used to treat children with cancer appear to have different risks long term for cardiomyopathy (abnormal heart muscle with impaired function). The study was in more than 28,000 childhood cancer survivors. Credit: UT Health San Antonio
In long-term survivors of childhood cancer, cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of early death from non-cancer causes. In a new study, published Jan. 31 in JAMA Oncology, researchers compared four chemotherapy drugs with the development of cardiomyopathy (abnormal heart muscle with impaired function) years after treatment.
