A new study from Cleveland Clinic finds that chest radiation used to shrink or kill breast cancer, Hodgkins lymphoma and other cancers may increase the risk of developing heart disease in cancer survivors. And the risk can be elevated for decades after the radiation treatment.The study, published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, also found that cancer survivors who had chest radiation face nearly double the odds of dying in the years after major heart surgery, compared with with similar patients who did not have radiation.
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