Cardio-oncology: A new discipline in medicine to lead us into truly integrative care

摘要

This themed issue of Future Cardiology, guest edited by Daniel Lenihan and Steven Lipshultz, fully introduces the myriad of important clinical practice issues and emerging science that encompasses the newly identified discipline of cardio-oncology, primarily from a cardiovascular perspective. Many existing and emerging cancer therapies have been linked with adverse cardiovascular events, and with an astonishing improvement in cancer survival rates over the past two decades the cardiovascular effects of cancer therapies are becoming increasingly relevant.