Medications – Maya

 

Maya says the treatment she received for childhood cancer may have caused her heart failure.

Transcript

Yeah, so I am a childhood cancer survivor. I was diagnosed with cancer at 15 months old and that was in my kidney and then I relapsed in my liver and for that I was treated with surgery and radiation and chemotherapy and one of the chemotherapy drugs was Adriamycin which is known to be cardiotoxic. So, after I went into remission I was followed, I think probably once a year at the children’s hospital with an echo and nothing came up. We weren’t expecting anything and then 10 years after I went into remission, I was 14 years old I noticed that my ejection fraction I guess had decreased and that was when I was first diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy.


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