“…Recent studies indicate that a large proportion of long-term survivors after treatment involving anthracyclines develop overt or subclinical signs of cardiac dysfunction. Potential risk factors for anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity include high cumulative anthracycline dose [11,21,25,28], previous mediastinal irradiation [10,19,28], young age at diagnosis [20,23], gender [21,22,26,27] and a long interval between treatment and investigation [9,17,20,28].…”