Cardioncology: From Molecular Mechanisms to Advanced Imaging and New Treatments
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Physiology and Pathology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 July 2025 | Viewed by 2718
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heart failure; hypertension; cardiomyopathies; advanced cardiac multimodality imaging; cardioncology
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Interests: heart failure; cardiomyopathies; pediatric cardiology; cardioncology
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Interests: dyslipidemia; ischemic heart disease; atrial fibrillation; hypertension; acute coronary syndrome; heart failure; cardioncology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advances in cancer therapies have significantly increased patient survival rates, but they carry the risk of cardiotoxicity, which requires effective monitoring and management.
Knowledge of the potential cardiovascular side effects of different classes of cancer therapies can improve understanding of their dose- and time-dependent impacts.
Shared inflammatory processes and immune system alterations characterize both cancer and cardiovascular disease. The immunological consequences of cancer treatments, especially with new biological therapies such as immunotherapy, underscore the need to explore the role of the immune system in determining cardiotoxicity at the molecular level.
Furthermore, despite the existence of several international guidelines and position papers regarding cardiovascular monitoring and management of patients receiving anticancer drugs, their limited empirical basis makes it difficult to determine a practical approach suitable for each clinical scenario.
This Special Issue “Cardioncology: From Molecular Mechanisms to Advanced Imaging and New Treatments” invites you to submit review articles, clinical cases or original papers with the aim to:
- Delve into the molecular mechanisms underlying the interplay between cardiovascular and cancer-related issues;
- Delve into the role of advanced imaging techniques in the diagnosis of early cardiotoxicity and monitoring of possible cardiovascular side effects of various classes of chemotherapeutics and radiotherapy;
- Deepen our understanding of the role of serum cardiac biomarkers in the diagnosis of early cardiotoxicity and monitoring of possible cardiovascular side effects of various classes of chemotherapeutics and radiotherapy;
- Delve into arrhythmic complications: diagnosis, monitoring and treatment;
- Describe the latest advances in treatments of cardiotoxicity.
Dr. Carla Contaldi
Dr. Giuseppe Pacileo
Prof. Dr. Paolo Calabrò
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cardiotoxicity
- echocardiography
- cardiac magnetic resonance
- cardiac computed tomography
- serum cardiac biomarkers
- cancer therapy
- arrhythmias
- cardiotoxicity treatment
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