Table of Contents

 

 

 

SECTION 1

BASIC SCIENCE CONSIDERATIONS

 

 

Overview

 

1

Cardiovascular Biology, Pathways, and the Relationship to Cancer Treatment   Thomas Force

 

2

Principles of Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy   Scott Lipmann

 

SECTION II

CARDIOTOXICITY OF ANTI-CANCER TREATMENT

 

 

Overview and Classification of Anti-Cancer Drugs

 

3

Antracycline Cardiotoxicity and the Cardiotoxicity of Related Agents; Type I treatment-related Cardiotoxicity   Michael S. Ewer

 

4

Trastuzumab Cardiotoxicity   Thomas Suter

 

5

Cardiotoxicity of Tyrosine-Kinase Inhibitors and Other Type II Agents   Aarif Khakoo

 

6

Cardiotoxicity of Other anti-cancer therapy   Edward Yeh and Courtney Bickford

 

7

Effects of Radiation Therapy on the Cardiovascular system   Sarah Darby [Oxford]

 

8

Cardiac considerations of cancer treatment in infants and children   Stephen Lipschultz

 

SECTION III

CARDIAC IMAGING IN THE CANCER PATIENT

 

 

Overview of Imaging

 

9

Cardiac ultrasound, Doppler imaging, and related techniques in the cancer patient   Juan Carlos Plana and Jose Banchs

 

10

Nuclear Imaging, Magnetic resonance imaging, and computed tomography in the cancer patient   Iyad N. Daher and Ellie Mouhayer

 

SECTION IV

MANAGEMENT OF CARDIAC DISEASE IN THE CANCER PATIENT

 

 

Overview

 

11

Disturbances of Cardiac Rhythm in the cancer patient   Steven Ewer

 

12

Heart failure in the cancer patient   Daniel Lenihan

 

13

Cardiac interventions in the cancer patient   Cesar Iliescu

 

14

Cardiac emergencies in the cancer patient   Carmen Escalante

 

15

Preoperative assessment of the cancer patient for non-cardiovascular surgery   Marc Rozner

 

SECTION V

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

 

 

Overview

 

16

The pericardium in the cancer patient   Steven M. Ewer

 

17

Cardiovascular effects of endocrine treatment of cancer   Michael Ewer and Stephen Gluck

 

18

Primary cardiac tumors and malignancy of the myocardium and pericardium   Michael J. Reardon

 

19

Cardiac monitoring during clinical trials   Sandra Swain and Edith Perez

 

20

Social, Economic, and legal issues of heart disease in the Cancer patient   Willima Windslade

 

21

Pulmonary considerations with regard to the cancer patient   Vicki Shannon

 

22

Psychosocial considerations of heart disease in the cancer patient   Anecita Fadol