People with early-stage Hodgkin lymphoma face a higher risk of dying from CVDs than from cancer
Treatment advances have improved the survival of individuals with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL)-a type of cancer that affects the lymphatic system-but therapies can increase patients' risk of developing heart problems. A recent study published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, reveals that people with early-stage HL are now at higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease than from cancer.
The multicenter study included 15,889 children and adults in the United States who were diagnosed with HL between 1983 and 2015. "We conducted this study because cardiovascular disease may be the most common non-malignant long-term complication and a prevalent cause for non-malignant death following treatment in HL survivors," said senior author Caiwen Ou, MD, PhD, of Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China.
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