Swedish Registry Study Shows Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer Increased All Cardiovascular Mortality

Published: Oct. 6, 2009, 10:17 p.m.

Oncology Times Broadcast News\n\nSwedish Registry Study Shows Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer Increased All Cardiovascular Mortality\n\nMieke Van Hemelrijck at ECCO15-ESMO34 on findings that cardiovascular mortality from heart failure and arrhythmia in addition to ischemic heart disease and myocardial infarction increased among patients treated with endocrine therapy\u2014of whatever type\u2014for their prostate cancer.