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Cardiovascular risk assessment in oncologic patients. A narrative review.

Cancer patients benefit from systematic heart disease assessment before and during treatment to prevent therapy-related cardiac damage.

Oncology patients require systematic cardiovascular risk assessment integrating cancer-associated risk factors, treatment cardiotoxicity, and comorbidities within an integrated cardio-oncology framework. This record was retained from the prior triage attempt for PubMed pipeline handoff.

What the study was

Study design
narrative_review
Category
cardiovascular_metabolic
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Why it surfaced

Cardio-oncology risk assessment review; relevant to cardiometabolic monitoring in cancer treatment pipeline.

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