Your heart after treatment for childhood cancer

This resource has been developed by PICS, Victoria’s Paediatric Integrated Cancer Service. 

Certain drugs and radiotherapy (radiation) to the chest may affect your heart after treatment is finished. This can happen soon after treatment, later in life, or not at all. The leaflet below describes:

• what chemotherapy drugs can affect your heart
• how they can affect your heart
• how radiation therapy can affect your heart
• how to know if your heart is affected
• possible signs and symptoms of a heart problem
• monitoring or testing during pregnancy or labour
• what you can do to stay healthy.