Monitoring Cancer Patients for Heart Disease

Certain chemotherapy agents for cancer can have adverse effects on the heart. Radiation treatment to the chest for cancer can also cause long term damage to heart muscle and blood vessels. Today’s cancer patient can become a heart disease patient of the future. Patients who have received chemotherapy in these situations need close monitoring during treatment as well as long term for delayed effects. Echocardiography with certain techniques can be used to assess the heart for these complications while stress tests need to be done periodically for radiation related heart disease. We offer this service at Lakeview Cardiology of Texas with thorough detailed assessment of patients based on their chemotherapy regimen.