Are cancer survivors more likely to get heart disease? Certain cancer drugs can cause cardiac side effects, but when patients get past that, what’s their heart disease risk? A new study from researchers at Yale suggests that cardiovascular disease in long-term cancer survivors is mainly due to the usual risk factors and not strongly influenced by cancer treatment. “ Given the limited impact of cancer-specific factors,” the authors write, “cancer-agnostic risk prediction may be adequate to predict individual cardiovascular risk.”

Cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death worldwide, is also the leading cause of noncancer mortality in long-term cancer survivors. But this study found, “Among older long-term survivors of breast, prostate, colon, and rectal cancer, late ca

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