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The greying of the global population is associated with an increasing proportion of elderly with cardiovascular diseases and malignancies. Consequently, invasive treatments for cardiac diseases are increasingly needed in patients with history of cancer. Yildirim et al.[1] underlined the importance of clinical data to guide the decisionmaking process in this patient population. Data on patients with active cancer is particularly needed because they are at most risk of cancer-related death and, likely, also at risk of early adverse events after cardiovascular procedures. Several studies investigated the outcome of these patients, but the lack of a standard definition of active cancer prevents conclusive results on this issue. Furthermore, there is scarce data on the impact of different types of malignancies on the outcome of patients with cardiovascular disease.In our study , we adopted the definition of active cancer as defined by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), i.e. patient receiving active antimitotic treatment; or diagnosed within the past 6 months; or recurrent or metastatic; or inoperable . This definition excludes squamous skin cancer and basal ce

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Author

Biancari, Fausto

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV; Publons (ISSN 0167-5273)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)