A new study published in next week’s issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology has found that surviving breast cancer patients who had been treated with radiotherapy prior to 1984 have a greater incidence of death caused by heart disease.
The study’s researchers determined this after analyzing data on almost 4,500 breast cancer patients who were treated for their cancer between 1954 and 1984 at a treatment center in France. Each woman included in the study was each evaluated for 28 years, on average.
Researchers looked at these women’s medical records and national registry information and determined that about two-thirds had received radiation treatment for their cancer. The team found that of the 2,637 women who survived their breast cancer, 421 died as a result of cardiovascular disease.
It was determined that for women who received radiation therapy in the specified time frame before 1984, the risk of dying from disease was 1.76 times higher than those women who were not treated with radiation.
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