Our Approach

The difficulty when dealing with cardio-toxic side effects, such as fatigue and shortness of breath, is that they can often mask themselves as normal effects from the cancer treatment itself. For patients with a pre-existing heart dysfunction, our team will make decisions on how to monitor these patients, and optimize cancer treatment to mitigate these side effects.

If a patient is found to have cardio-toxicities during treatment with chemotherapy, our team will work together with the oncologist and the patient to decide on the best course of action. In some cases, collaboration with the oncologist will need to take place in order to change the chemotherapy to something that's less cardio-toxic. The goal of this program is to help patients through their treatment so they have the best chance to be cured of their cancer.