Prostate Cancer Survivors ’ Risk of Heart Disease Studied (Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center)

The 3 million prostate cancer survivors in the United States are likely to die from something other than cancer, thanks to early detection, effective treatment, and the disease's slow progression. What survivors need to be more concerned with is heart disease, the most common non-cancer cause of death for men with prostate cancer, according to a paper published this week in Circulation, authored by Vanderbilt physicians. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is one of the 26 NCCN Member Institut ...
Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news