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Adverse Outcomes in Breast Cancer Are Magnified When Patients Have Poor Heart Health

In In The News by Barbara Jacoby

By: Maggie L. Shaw From: ajmc.com Female survivors of breast cancer total over 3.5 million in the United States alone. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a leading cause of death among this patient group, as it is for all women. This especially holds true for women with already poor cardiovascular health (CVH) who receive a breast cancer diagnosis and undergo …