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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2025

Cardioprotection for radiation-induced heart disease in breast cancer patients.

Sabina Mędrek, Kasper Rolek, Jakub Homotnik, Sebastian Szmit

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sabina MędrekDepartment of Cardio-Oncology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.
Kasper RolekDepartment of Cardiology and Cardio-Oncology Unit, Subcarpathian Oncological Center, Brzozow, Poland.
Jakub HomotnikDepartment of Cardiology and Cardio-Oncology Unit, Subcarpathian Oncological Center, Brzozow, Poland.
Sebastian SzmitDepartment of Cardio-Oncology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiotherapy is an integral part of early breast cancer treatment, when breast-conserving surgery is performed. Heart disease caused by radiotherapy can include pericardial lesions, cardiac dysfunction, valvular defects, coronary artery damage, and cardiac arrhythmias. Risk factors primarily include those related to the mean heart dose of radiation, but with the development of modern radiotherapy techniques, this problem is optimistically decreasing. However, concurrent pharmacological anticancer therapies still significantly impact the vessels and heart. The key problem, however, is pre-existing heart disease, often based on atherosclerosis or arterial hypertension. Efforts should be made to ensure that radiotherapy produces at most permissive cardiotoxicity, which will not affect the quality of life or survival. Hence, effective pharmacotherapy for primary and secondary cardioprotection is searching.

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cardio-oncologycardioprotectioncoronary artery diseaseheart diseaseradiotherapy

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PMID41567628
PMCPMC12816248

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