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Should end-of-therapy echocardiograms be obtained for AYA patients with sarcomas who have received high-dose anthracyclines?

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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology · Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Exposure to anthracyclines will predispose cancer survivors to cardiomyopathy in a dose dependent manner, both alone and in combination with radiation therapy to the chest. While cumulative doses > 250 mg/m2 are associated with increasing risk of cardiomyopathy, lower doses have been implicated as w...

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