Will chemo cause heart failure? A new test may have answers

Saturday, June 20, 2020 - 13:20 in Health & Medicine

Yale doctors have developed a technique to predict whether cancer patients receiving a common chemotherapy drug are likely to experience heart failure as a result. The chemotherapy drug, called doxorubicin, is used to treat a number of cancers, including breast and bladder cancers, lymphoma, and Kaposi’s sarcoma. It is a powerful medication, researchers say, and […]

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