Heart disease and cancer are closely intertwined due to the fact that cancer treatments put a risk for heart disease. Having cancer can predispose one to heart disease, the number one known killer. Not only does chemotherapy drugs affect the heart, but further research shows that cancer survivors are more likely to face heart and other cardiovascular diseases as these cancer therapy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, tend to be toxic to heart muscles and organs as well as killing not only cancer cells but also other cells in the body. Read the rest of this entry »

Chemotherapy is one alternative that is customarily prescribed for lung cancer. This is typically the treatment of choice for SCLC, small cell. It may also be prescribed to a patient as a follow up to surgery for patients with non-small cell. Read the rest of this entry »