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Heart Failure Survivors at Increased Risk for Cancer
– Reported, June 29, 2013
(Ivanhoe Newswire) With advancements in medicine, heart failure patients are surviving more with the heart condition, but they are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer, according to a recent study.
Heart failure patients are not only at an increased risk for developing cancer, but the occurrence of cancer increases mortality in these patients. These findings underscore the importance of cancer surveillance in the management of heart failure patients, Dr. Veronique Roger, MD, director of the Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery and co-author of the study, was quoted as saying.
Researchers discovered that patients with heart failure between 1979 and 1990 had a 48 percent increased risk of cancer, and patients diagnosed between 1991 and 2002 had an 86 percent increased risk.
SOURCE: Journal of the American College of Cardiology, June 2013
