{"id":131,"date":"2010-07-17T20:02:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T04:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angelsofcourage.com\/"},"modified":"2012-01-26T08:14:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T15:14:32","slug":"late-effects-of-treatment-spleen-heart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/angelsofcourage.com\/site\/cancer-topics\/late-effects-of-treatment\/late-effects-of-treatment-spleen-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Spleen &#038; Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spleen<\/p>\n<p>Childhood cancer survivors may have late effects that affect the spleen.<\/p>\n<p>Spleen late effects may increase the risk of life-threatening bacterial infections.<\/p>\n<p>Certain factors increase the risk that spleen late effects will occur.<\/p>\n<p>The risk of spleen late effects may be increased in childhood cancer survivors who received either of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Splenectomy (surgery to remove the spleen).<\/li>\n<li>High- dose radiation therapy to the spleen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is very important that childhood cancer survivors who received either of these treatments keep immunizations up-to-date and receive antibiotics before having any dental work.<\/p>\n<p>Spleen late effects may be caused by treatment for childhood Hodgkin lymphoma and other childhood cancers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heart<\/p>\n<p>Childhood cancer survivors may have late effects that affect the heart.<\/p>\n<p>Heart late effects may include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abnormal heartbeat.<\/li>\n<li>Disease of the heart muscle.<\/li>\n<li>Congestive heart failure.<\/li>\n<li>Increased risk of stroke, blood clots, and chest pains.<\/li>\n<li>Tiring quickly during exercise.<\/li>\n<li>Coronary artery disease (hardening of the heart arteries).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Certain factors may increase the risk that heart late effects will occur.<\/p>\n<p>The following may increase the risk of heart late effects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Being female.<\/li>\n<li>Being young at the time of treatment (the younger the child, the greater the risk).<\/li>\n<li>Having other risk factors for heart disease, such as a family history of heart disease, being overweight, smoking, or having high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes.<\/li>\n<li>Having received a stem cell transplant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This risk may also increase as the amounts of anthracycline drugs and radiation used increase and as the time since treatment gets longer.<\/p>\n<p>Heart late effects may be caused by treatment for certain childhood cancers.<\/p>\n<p>Treatment for these and other childhood cancers may cause heart late effects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).<\/li>\n<li>Central nervous system (CNS) tumors.<\/li>\n<li>Hodgkin lymphoma.<\/li>\n<li>Wilms tumor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Web site of the National Cancer Institute (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/\">http:\/\/www.cancer.gov<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><code>[ad code=1 align=center]<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spleen Childhood cancer survivors may have late effects that affect the spleen. Spleen late effects may increase the risk of life-threatening bacterial infections. Certain factors [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/angelsofcourage.com\/site\/cancer-topics\/late-effects-of-treatment\/late-effects-of-treatment-spleen-heart\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":296,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelsofcourage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelsofcourage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelsofcourage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelsofcourage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelsofcourage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/angelsofcourage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/angelsofcourage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions\/1173"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelsofcourage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelsofcourage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}