Clinical significance of intracoronary optical coherence tomography examination in the fields of onco-cardiology/cardio-oncology
Onco-cardiology or cardio-oncology is critically required to understand the optimal care of patients with cancer [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. In this era of an aging society, the morbidity of cancer and coronary artery disease (CAD) is increasing, and both become the major causes of death. Significant links between cancer diseased and CAD have been reported [ [1] , [2] ]. CAD is identified as a risk factor in the prognosis of cancer survivors [ [3] ], while cancer is an independent predictor of poor CAD outcomes [ [4] ]. These findings might be attributed to the fact that advanced diagnosis and treatment could achieve good long-term outcomes in ...
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