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flag Cancer patients with severe heart valve disease face higher death risk, but treatment cuts it by 72%, urging routine heart checks.

flag A study of over 10,000 cancer patients found 7.2% had severe valvular heart disease, mainly tricuspid or mitral regurgitation and aortic stenosis, linked to higher death and cardiovascular mortality rates. flag Only 21.5% received surgical or transcatheter treatments, but those who did had a 72% lower risk of death. flag Findings presented at EACVI 2025 stress the need for routine heart monitoring in cancer patients and challenge avoidance of valve interventions, calling for more research on how cancer therapies affect heart valves.

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