Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 2020; 115(5): 1006-1043
Brazilian Cardio-oncology Guideline – 2020
Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar
, Isabela Bispo Santos da Silva da Costa
, Marcelo Antônio Cartaxo Queiroga Lopes
, Paulo Marcelo Gehm Hoff
, Maria Del Pilar Estevez Diz
, Silvia Moulin Ribeiro Fonseca, Cristina Salvadori Bittar
, Marília Harumi Higuchi dos Santos Rehder
, Stephanie Itala Rizk, Dirceu Rodrigues Almeida, Gustavo dos Santos Fernandes, Luís Beck-da-Silva
, Carlos Augusto Homem de Magalhães Campos, Marcelo Westerlund Montera, Sílvia Marinho Martins Alves
, Júlia Tizue Fukushima
, Maria Verônica Câmara dos Santos, Carlos Eduardo Negrão, Thiago Liguori Feliciano da Silva, Silvia Moreira Ayub Ferreira
, Marcus Vinicius Bolivar Malachias
, Maria da Consolação Vieira Moreira
, Manuel Maria Ramos Valente Neto, Veronica Cristina Quiroga Fonseca, Maria Carolina Feres de Almeida Soeiro, Juliana Barbosa Sobral Alves, Carolina Maria Pinto Domingues Carvalho Silva, João Sbano
, Ricardo Pavanello
, Ibraim Masciarelli F. Pinto, Antônio Felipe Simão, Marianna Deway Andrade Dracoulakis, Ana Oliveira Hoff, Bruna Morhy Borges Leal Assunção, Yana Novis, Laura Testa
, Aristóteles Comte de Alencar Filho, Cecília Beatriz Bittencourt Viana Cruz, Juliana Pereira, Diego Ribeiro Garcia, Cesar Higa Nomura
, Carlos Eduardo Rochitte
, Ariane Vieira Scarlatelli Macedo
, Patricia Tavares Felipe Marcatti
, Wilson Mathias Junior
, Evanius Garcia Wiermann, Renata do Val, Helano Freitas, Anelisa Coutinho, Clarissa Maria de Cerqueira Mathias, Fernando Meton de Alencar Camara Vieira, André Deeke Sasse, Vanderson Rocha, José Antônio Franchini Ramires
, Roberto Kalil Filho
1. Introduction
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer are currently the leading causes of mortality worldwide and in Brazil.– The recent demographic and epidemiological transitions in Brazil have determined an increase in the population’s life expectancy, today around 76 years, and a change in the health profile, in which chronic diseases and their complications prevail.
These factors pose important challenges and require the development of a health policy agenda for the management of the ongoing transitions. The technological advances, the shortage of cost-effectiveness analyses and, in higher education settings, the little value attributed to health access and promotion, as well as to disease prevention, require the implementation of guidelines and consensus statements. These guidelines and consensus statements are aimed at helping the use of systematized protocols to adapt the clinical practice regardless of the geographic location of the health facilities and the heterogeneity of their resources.
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