Pretreatment and routine echocardiogram monitoring during chemotherapy for anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity rarely identifies significant cardiac dysfunction or alters treatment decisions: A 5-year review at a single pediatric oncology center

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1919-1924

  Watts, Raymond G ^a   George, McKenzie ^a   Johnson, Walter H ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiotoxicity; Chemotherapy protocol; Daunomycin; Doxorubicin; Late effects; Surveillance; Treatment decisions

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHILD; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTIC SHOCK; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

EID: 84858684483     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26481     Document Type: Article

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