August 2021

ONCOLOGY

MANAGING TREATMENT RELATED CARDIOVASCULAR SIDE EFFECTS

Featuring: Nausheen Akhter, MD

Episode Summary

Nausheen Akhter, MD discusses managing treatment related cardiovascular side effects. She examines why has this sub specialty grown in importance with the ever increasing cancer survivorship and development of novel cancer therapies that have acute & long-term cardiovascular effects. She shares the structure of Northwestern Medicine’s cardio-oncology clinic, the need to shift referrals upstream for “pre-chemo cardiac evaluation” in high risk patients & how cardiac imaging used in cancer therapy surveillance.
Nausheen Akhter, MD, associate professor of Medicine (Cardiology).

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