Prostate cancer survivors’ risk of heart disease studied by MPH alumna Morgans
The 3 million prostate cancer survivors in the United States are likely to die from something other than cancer, thanks to early detection, effective treatment and the disease’s slow progression.What survivors need to be more concerned with is heart disease, the most common non-cancer cause of death for men with prostate cancer, according to a paper published this week in Circulation, authored by Vanderbilt physicians, including MPH alumna Alicia Morgans, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of Medicine, and MPH faculty David Penson, M.D., M.P.H.