Dr. Dinesh Thavendiranathan & Dr. Husam Abdel-Qadir: Making the Case for Cardio-Oncology in Community Practices

In this episode, Dr. Husam Abdel-Qadir, Cardiologist and Scientist at Women’s College Hospital, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and Adjunct Scientist, ICES – together with & Dr. Dinesh Thavendiranathan, Cardiologist and Scientist at Toronto General Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Investigator and, Director of the Ted Rogers Program in Cardiotoxicity Prevention discuss the importance for all general cardiologists to develop expertise in cardio-oncology.

There is an increasing need to treat patients who have concomitant cardiovascular disease and cancer, and to care for patients who develop cardiotoxicity following cancer treatment. Considering that cardio-vascular disease is the second leading competing cause of death in cancer survivors, cardio-oncology is a field that can be embraced by community cardiologists in addition to expert cardiologists in urban academic settings.