Men With Breast Cancer: Watch the Heart
email article Male breast cancer patients commonly showed signs of elevated cardiovascular risk, according to a small retrospective study of this rare population. Cardiovascular risk factors highly prevalent among the 24 male breast cancer patients studied at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center included: Overweight: 88% of patients Hyperlipidemia: 54% Before cancer treatment, 8% of patients had pre-existing tachyarrhythmias; during treatment, another 13% developed them. Cancer treatment was also followed by two people showing drops in e...