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Cancer Treatment Induced Heart Disease

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

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@amandaa

Welcome @jocelynk. I agree with @penn1023 and would be interested in what conditions and side effects your doctor advised you to look out for. Are any of them currently on your radar? You stated that your radiation was in 1981, how long after did you have your heart attack?

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I’ll give you some items I’ve been dealing with since the radiation....very susceptible to pneumonia and bronchitis due to lung damage, spleen was removed so need to be cautious of viruses and bacterial infections. Heart attack was in 2014. U of MN told me 5 other people with same background of receiving this great amount of radiation back when I did, recently had unexplained heart attacks also. Again, really would have been nice to be aware that they had this info. earlier. The letter outlining items to watch for was long, basically from head to toe, any cancers that could occur were to be watched out for by frequent annual testing (example, breast MRI and mammogram annually from now on), more colonoscopies, etc. Been self isolating since March due to COVID. My doctors don’t want me to take any chances.