Cardio-Oncology: Breast Cancer Risk Reduction – Expert Insights

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to learn ​which breast cancer therapies carry the highest cardiotoxicity ‌risk and how to identify⁢ the patients most vulnerable before starting treatment.

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what​ are the current⁤ best practices for cardioprotection ​in patients receiving these therapies?

This is also a ‌very active ⁢and dynamic moving target. I think for patients ⁤receiving anthracyclines, definately pre- and ⁤post imaging is very important to try to optimize your best practices with echocardiography to make sure that⁣ there is ‌no evidence of cardiac dysfunction. ‌Many women can ⁢go on for months ⁤to years with an abnormal ejection‍ fraction and not feel anything until⁣ it basically becomes ​an irreversible type of heart failure. HER2 by itself, I⁢ think overall the incidence ‌is very, very⁢ low.‍ I know imaging‌ is⁤ very frequent in that arm, and some of us‍ are questioning the ⁣paradigm of whether​ we ⁣need to⁤ be that ⁣aggressive without the use‌ of anthracyclines.

Immunotherapy is still also a topic of a lot of debate about whether we check‍ biomarkers before or during. ‌I think, in general, ​it is just very important to have systems of care where toxicities, ⁤not

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