Monitoring risk factors of cardiovascular disease in cancer survivors
| Autor: | Ambika Kapoor, Thang S. Han, Pankaj Sharma, Vineet Prakash, Matthew Q. Hatton, Diana Greenfield, Michael E. J. Lean, Mallika Sekhar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Alternative medicine Disease Audit Health Promotion Risk monitoring 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cancer Survivors Risk Factors medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Lung cancer Original Research Clinical Oncology business.industry Cancer General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Health promotion Cardiovascular Diseases 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Emergency medicine Female business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical medicine (London, England). 17(4) |
| ISSN: | 1473-4893 1470-2118 |
| Popis: | There exist published literature for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk monitoring in cancer survivors but the extent of monitoring in clinical oncology practice is unknown. We performed an interactive survey at a Royal College of Physicians conference (11 November 2016) attended by practitioners with an interest in late effects of cancer treatment and supplemented the survey with an audit among 32 lung cancer survivors treated at St Peter's NHS Hospital in 2012-2016. Among the practitioners, 40% reported CVD risk monitoring performed at least annually, which is compatible with European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Guidelines, but 31% indicated that monitoring was never performed. In contrast, 77% felt that at least an annual assessment was required (p |
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