Childhood Cancer Changes Could Lead To Huge Savings For Health Care
Monday, June 30, 2014 - 16:10
in Health & Medicine
Recently findings could help to reduce health care charges while also protecting childhood cancer survivors from heart ailments caused by drug therapy. The paper reviewed data from patient histories to show that current standard medical guidelines for protecting childhood cancer survivors from drug treatment-related heart disease and heart failure later in life through periodic heart scans (echocardiographs) are overly cautious. According to the data, the frequency of such post-cancer screenings can be safely reduced for low-risk patients – with large cost-savings and little reduction in overall quality of patient care. read more