Medical Oncology

Cardiology   

Questions discussed in this category


Do you routinely check EKGs or echocardiograms? Or do you decide only if the patient is at risk for QTc prolongation or other symptoms?

Would you continue ibrutinib even if they are placed on anti-platelet therapy such as clopidogrel or ticagrelor? When do you switch to an altern...

Do you insist on ambulatory/home blood pressures to rule in/out white coat hypertension? Does your practice have a system to log patients' BPs to supp...

For radiation oncologists, how do you ameliorate the risk for radiation-related injury to epicardial coronaries during treatment sessions?

E.g. in a patient with tenuous cardiac function, would starting treatment several weeks earlier potentially improve outcomes?

Do you feel comfortable with BTK inhibitors in these patients? In ELEVATE-RR patients on a/c were excluded, and rate of atrial fibrillation in the ac...

When 5FU is a backbone to so many regimens, when (if ever) do you consider re-challenging so as not to abandon an entire line of therapy?

How might a recent (within 6 months) myocardial infarction affect your recommendations?


Papers discussed in this category


JAMA, 2009-08-26

European urology, 2015-05

JAMA, 2008-01-23

JAMA oncology, 2016-04

The New England journal of medicine, 2015-12-17

Blood, 2022 Jul 14

Leukemia, 2021 Apr 27

J Am Coll Cardiol, 2019 Oct 01

JACC CardioOncol, 2019 Dec 17

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2020 Dec 23

JAMA network open, 2024 Dec 02

JACC. CardioOncology, 2020 Mar 17

Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, 2024 Oct 10

Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2008 Apr 16

Eur. J. Cancer, 2013 May 22

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2006-09-01

Breast cancer research and treatment, 2019-05

Clin Colorectal Cancer, 2018 Oct 10

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 1997-06

The New England journal of medicine, 2014-11-13

Lancet Oncol., 2017 Sep 11

The Lancet. Oncology, 2017-08

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2017-03-10

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2018-12-01

Annals of Oncology, 2021 Sep 29

J Urol, 2019 Jun 12

Eur J Heart Fail, 2020 Aug 06

Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging, 2022 Sep 10

Eur Heart J, 2022 Nov 01

JACC CardioOncol, 2022 Dec 20

The American journal of cardiology, 2018-12-01

Curr Oncol, 2021 Oct 13

Cardiooncology, 2019 Jan 29

Haematologica, 2010-07

The American journal of medicine, 1997-01

Haematologica, 2019 Aug 14

Pediatr Transplant, 2021 Aug

Br J Haematol, 2023 May 2

Bone marrow transplantation, 2022 Dec 27

Eur Heart J, 2022 Jan 31

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 2021 May 08

JACC CardioOncol, 2021 Sep 21

J Am Heart Assoc, 2020 Jan 21

Circulation, 2020 Jun 15

Journal of the American Heart Association, 2021 Sep 06