Higher risk of cardiovascular mortality than cancer mortality among long-term cancer survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies focused more on the short-term risk of cardiovascular (CV) death due to traumatic psychological stress after a cancer diagnosis and the acute cardiotoxicity of anticancer treatments than on the long-term risk of CV death.

Methods

Time trends in the proportions of CV death (P_CV), cancer death (P_CA), and other causes in deaths from all causes were used to show preliminary relationships among the three causes of death in 4,806,064 patients with cancer from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program. Competing mortality risk curves were used to investigate when the cumulative CV mortality rate (CMR_CV) began to outweigh the cumulative cancer mortality rate (CMR_CA) for patients with cancer

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905625 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature