In a new initiative at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, cancer patients are being screened for heart conditions, a byproduct of cancer treatments that arise in some patients, reports the Gainesville Times.
The hospital now has a multidisciplinary team to provide specialized heart care to patients with cancer. Patients can receive cardiac imaging for early diagnosis, prevention and treatment for cardiac conditions.
“We have very strong medicines that are able to combat cancer and patients are living much longer,” said Abhishek Gaur, MD a cardiologist and the medical director of echocardiography at Northeast Georgia. “That’s wonderful, but many of these medications … can be damaging to the heart muscle. So, the whole idea, as a heart doctor, is we want patients to have a healthy heart while they go through the chemotherapy.”
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