Heart Health & Cancer: comprehensive patient fact sheet

Despite this, there's a real lack of information available for patients and survivors to understand the relationship between cancer and heart health - including the steps they can take to lower their personal risk.

To help patients and survivors understand cardiovascular risks after cancer treatment and how lifestyle measures can reduce these risks, Cancer Council NSW have developed a comprehensive patient fact sheet on heart health and cancer Understanding Heart Health and Cancer.  

The eight-page fact sheet details key information about cancer and the heart, ways to keep your heart healthy, common heart problems linked to cancer and its treatment, symptoms to look out for, prevention and monitoring, managing heart problems and cardiovascular tests. The fact sheet also underscores the importance of patients maintaining a relationship with their GPs during and after their cancer treatment. 

It explains what a patient and their treatment team can do to protect the patient’s heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular system) before, during, and after cancer treatment.