October 2020 Vol. 8 No.10

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Original Research Article

Curing cancer while remembering the heart- a compelling case for all clinicians

Casian Mihnea^1*, Munteanu Alice Elena¹, Bolohan Filip Romi¹, Demiras Leonard¹, Indrieș Veronica-Dochita¹, Pătru Cecilia1, Ioniță Iulia¹, Mihai Ancuța² and Chiriac Liviu¹

¹“Dr. Carol Davila” Central Military Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania- Center of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Cardiology 2
²“Dr. Carol Davila” Central Military Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania- Department of Internal Medicine 2

*Corresponding Authors Email: Casian Mihnea: mihnea.casian@gmail.com
Munteanu Alice Elena: dralicepopescu@yahoo.com

Received: 08 October 2020  I  Accepted: 23 October 2020  I  Published: 25 October 2020  I  Article ID: MRJMMS-20-177
Copyright © 2020 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article.
This article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.

Abstract

Oncology and Cardiology are two distinct medical worlds which just begin to collide. Given the early detection and improved intervention, more people than ever are surviving cancer. In Europe alone, there are 30 million cancer survivors, who are likely to develop some of the long-term side effects of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and biological therapy (Lyon, 2019). This calls for clinicians of all sorts to adopt a new perspective when it comes to cancer patients and survivors. Cardio-Oncology is an exciting and rapidly evolving field in which Cardiology and Oncology are brought together. What Cardio-Oncology promises is a better quality of life for cancer survivors in terms of cardiovascular diseases and a chance for some patients to undergo the potentially life-saving cancer therapy. Since Cardio-Oncology also addresses the issue of early detection of subclinical and clinical cardiovascular conditions, the time has come for all clinicians and especially internists to learn how to approach cancer patients/survivors and to better understand the needs of this particular population.

Keywords: Atrial fibrillation, Biological therapy, Cancer, Cardio-oncology, Chemotherapy, Myocardial dysfunction, Quality of life