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Cancer Treatment Induced Heart Disease

Cancer: Managing Symptoms | Last Active: Sep 1, 2022 | Replies (54)
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@martijwis

Thank you for the link, Colleen, to the Mayo article re: heart disease and cancer from 2014. Also, I appreciate your willingness to possibly share my comments w/ Mayo experts especially in regard to Coronary Calcium Scan for early detection of heart disease of us cancer patients who are at high risk due to radiation treatment. I am becoming more aware now of Mayo's expertise in acknowledging and treating RIHD. We'll see how things go with the treatment I'm getting now in my area. If I need better options/procedures in the future, I'll seriously consider coming to Mayo.

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Feb 19, 2020

@martijwis should you wish to inquire about a second opinion at Mayo Clinic, here's the contact information to call or submit a request online. You can self-refer or have your doctor refer you. http://mayocl.in/1mtmR63

You may find this Visitors Guide helpful too. It answers many commonly asked questions https://www.mayoclinic.org/patient-visitor-guide

@Sakota9 it isn't easy to keep a positive attitude. How does one reframe hope? Members talk quite a bit about dealing with cancer and depression in the Cancer: Managing Symptoms group https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/cancer-managing-symptoms/

You might want to start a new discussion in that group asking "How do you keep a positive attitude?" I'm sure there are many who could relate and hopefully offer tips or strategies that worked for them.

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