Hodgkin Disease

Some patients develop heart problems years after radiation treatment

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 23rd, 2003

Patients who successfully weather the powerful treatments used to send Hodgkin lymphoma soundly into remission are often considered cured of their cancer. But a new study shows that years later they may develop serious heart problems because of the radiation therapy they received.

"They're cured from their malignancy but they're not out of the woods from the standpoint of their blood vessels and their heart," said University of Florida (UF) researcher and study coauthor Carl J. Pepine, MD, chief of cardiovascular medicine at UF's College of Medicine. Pepine is also the current president of the American College of Cardiology.

The study was reported in...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-12-23)

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