Heart
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Childhood cancer survivors may have late effects that affect the heart.
Heart late effects may include the following:
- Abnormal heartbeat.
- Disease of the heart muscle.
- Congestive heart failure.
- Increased risk of stroke, blood clots, and chest pains.
- Tiring quickly during exercise.
- Coronary artery disease (hardening of the heart arteries).
Certain factors may increase the risk that heart late effects will occur.
The following may increase the risk of heart late effects:
This risk may also increase as the amounts of anthracycline drugs and radiation used increase and as the time since treatment gets longer.
Heart late effects may be caused by treatment for certain childhood cancers.
Treatment for these and other childhood cancers may cause heart late effects:
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