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ASE-EAE to issue guidelines for the echocardiographic evaluation of cancer patients
Date:10/20/2011

"Considering that the early detection of cardio toxicity is a critical issue for patients undergoing chemotherapy, the ASE and the EAE have come together to write guidelines which will highlight the technical advantages of echocardiography in identifying cardio toxicity early," explained Prof Juan Carlos Plana, Co-Director of the Cardio-oncology Center, Cleveland Clinic, from the ASE. "This would help select patients who would benefit from cardio protective regimens, so that heart failure does not become an obstacle to the oncologist during therapy, and to the patient during his/her survival."

In the last decade cancer therapy has had an enormous progress leading to an important reduction of morbidity and mortality of several types of cancer. The therapeutic management of patients with cancer includes a combination of drugs, radiation therapy, and surgery. Several of these therapies, mainly anthracyclines, produce potential adverse cardiac reactions which can negatively impact the quality of life as well as the prognosis of oncologic patients. The new generation of targeted therapies (i.e. trastuzumab in breast cancer) has also been associated with unexpected unfavorable side effects on myocardial function. Currently, 17% of patients have to stop cancer therapy due to heart involvement.

"Detecting cardio toxicity is a critical issue in the clinical setting, in order to appropriately modulate and, hopefully, not interrupt cancer therapy. The traditional screening of patients with cancer includes a cardiac examination, and both an electrocardiogram (EKG) and a 2D echocardiogram with Doppler at baseline. The monitoring of cardiovascular toxicity might be more accurate using endomyocardial biopsy. However, the test is highly invasive and not free from complications," stated Dr Maurizio Galderisi, from the Federico II University in Naples, Italy and chairperson of the EAE task force.

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