Population-Based Long-term Cardiac-Specific Mortality Among Patients With Major Gastrointestinal Cancers

Patients with major gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are at long-term risk for cardiac disease and mortality.To investigate the cardiac-specific mortality rate among individuals with major GI cancers and the association of radiation and chemotherapy with survival outcomes in the United States.This US cohort study included individual patient-level data of men and women older than 18 years with 5 major gastrointestinal cancers, including colorectal,...