Lung cancer radiation may increase the risk of major adverse cardiac events

“In this day and age, no cancer patient undergoing chest radiation should fail to see a cardio-oncologist.” –Guilherme H. Oliveira, MD, MBA A new retrospective study of patients with locally advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) appearing in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2019.03.500) concludes that cardiac radiation dose exposure is an independent predictor of the incidence of major adverse cardiac...