Cardiotoxicity in Children

During the last decades, advances in cancer treatment strategies led to a substantial improvement in the 5-year survival rate of children (age 0–14) with cancer, moving from less than 60 % in the 1970s to more than 80 % in 2010. It is estimated that about 75–80 % of children with cancer diagnosed in these days will be still alive after 10 years from diagnosis. However, about 40–75 % of them will experience at least one chronic treatment-related condition by the first 30 years after diagnosis.