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Abstract:
Post-operative care of cancer patients has to take into consideration additional diseases not related to the basic disease, too. This is especially of importance in cases in which these diseases are decisive for the patient's expectation of life. In view of the age structure of cancer patients, a high incidence of diseases of circulation and their risk factors is to be expected. In the present study 480 cancer patients were examined retrospectively for their multimorbidity. It confirmed the high incidence of risk factors (27% hypertension, 17% diabetes mellitus) and of diseases of circulation (60% cardiac failure, 20% coronary heart disease, 15% peripheral disturbances of arterial circulation). These complicating diseases were overlooked in many cases in view of the "tragedy of cancer".
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