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Carlos A Gongora1, Lili Zhang1, Juan Lopez Mattei2
1Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center at Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Abstract:
The increasing aging of the population combined with improvements in cancer detection and care has significantly improved the survival and quality of life of cancer patients. These benefits are hampered by the increase of cardiovascular diseases being heart failure the most frequent manifestation of cardiotoxicity and becoming the major cause of morbidity and mortality among cancer survivor. Current strategies to prevent cardiotoxicity involves different approaches such as optimal management of CV risk factors, use of statins and/or neurohormonal medications, and, in some cases, even the use of chelating agents. As a class, SGLT2-i have revolutionized the therapeutic horizon of HF patients independently of their ejection fraction or glycemic status. There is an abundance of data from translational and observational clinical studies supporting a potential beneficial role of SGLT2-i in mitigating the cardiotoxic effects of cancer patients receiving anthracyclines. These findings underscore the need for more robust clinical trials to investigate the effect on cardiovascular outcomes of the prophylactic SGLT2-i treatment in patients undergoing cancer treatment.
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