Onkologie. 2018:12(6):288-292 [Urol. praxi. 2018;19(5):228-232]
Cardiovascular toxicity induced by conventional anticancer drugs (anthracyclines and platinum compounds) has historically beena relevant issue of patients with genitourinary malignancies. In addition, targeted and androgen-deprivation therapies can alsoinduce cardiotoxicity in these patients. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a novel class of effective antineoplastic drugs withcardiotoxicity used in patients with urogenital malignancies. Cardiotoxicity has been long underestimated in clinical practice,but during the last years significant number of patients with serious cardiovascular complications during or after completionof anticancer therapy have been reported. Here we describe cardiotoxicity of the selected prominent drugs used in the field ofurooncology which have received particular attention in recent years.
Published: December 15, 2018 Show citation